ATLANTA -- In the wake of the attacks of Sept. 11, you heard a lot of musing that our days of frivolity and cynicism had ended with the collapse of the World Trade Towers. Suddenly, it was time to get serious. "I think it's the end of the age of irony," Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter proclaimed, a statement that would itself look ironic seven years later. "To look at anything published before Tuesday at 8:45 a.m. -- People magazine's cover on Ben Affleck's struggle with alcoholism, Time's cover on Venus and Serena Williams, Business Week on the 'Wine War' -- is to realize how suddenly, dramatically, unalterably the world has changed," wrote Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz. "And that means journalism will also change, indeed is changing before our eyes." "The most important thing is that it will introduce a new...
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