This is news?

Tonight I was reading through several less-than-a-month-old issues of Newsweek magazine recently passed on to us by some friends. Yes, that’s Newsweek the printed magazine, not newsweek.com the online version (or more properly, MSNBC). Anyway, one of the articles was titled “Jeans Rising: Hark! The end of the ultra-low-rise era nears. Teens loved them, moms didn’t. Farewell to the muffin top.”

Now, I’ll be as glad as anyone to see this trend go by the wayside, however … this is news? This is Newsweek caliber news? The article was nearly two full pages. It went into detail about exactly what constitutes low-rise jeans, ultra-low-rise jeans, “mom” jeans, and the new-recently-but-not-for-long mid-rise jean style that is, thankfully, the hottest spring jeans style. It also provided visual aids diagramming exactly where each of these rises falls on the female waistline.

Yes, that’s Newsweek. You know, the one that sits next to Time, and U.S. News in most book stores?

So, I decided to blog this silliness, and in the process discovered that newsweek.com carried the article as well, which I’m sure they do with all the articles from the print version. Yep, that’s news. Unfortunately, the words “muffin top” now mean something they didn’t before. Yep, that’s me getting old.

Tags: humor