Gordon's Notes wonders whether the Economist is still worth reading:

Gordon's Notes: Going down, coming up: The Economist and Newsweek: The Economist describes Libby's perjury as a "technicality". That regurgitation of Bush propaganda wouldn't mean much if it was an isolated incident, but it's part of a four year pattern.... They are in decline now. On the other hand, I happened to read Newsweek's Libby/Cheney coverage on an airplane. I've not read Newsweek since I was a child.... This article... put Libby's behavior into a convincingly romantic context of the 'honorable soldier against the apocalypse, making a kind of sense of a claustrophobic world of fear, loyalty and self-delusion. The Atlantic is another magazine that's come up in the world. It may well be time for me to swap the Economist for Newsweek and the Atlantic...