Who Needs Tabloids?

Although I'm amused by the cover headlines in the check-out line, I think it'd be great if the supermarkets had Mother Jones up there along with the Enquirer, the Weekly World News, and all that stuff. The stories in Mother Jones are every bit as scandalous as the ones in the tabloids, after all. The only difference? They're true!

So instead of reading about how the Pope fathered Britney Spears' love child (okay, they haven't run that headline - YET!) shoppers could read about how a charitable group sent flood victims in Mozambique "care packages" of old, rancid food. Or about how thousands of people die every year due to preventable medical accidents in hospitals. Or satire pieces with headlines like "Stop Drugs: Kill Addicts!"

Of course, given that Mother Jones is running actual news, and thought-provoking stories about actual real-world events, I should probably be pretty worried that gap between reality and the tabloids seems to be narrowing. Or should I?