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TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. If you haven't already, check out today's stories on the site: As another preview from the June print issue (free to non-subscribers), Garance discusses the fast journey of a new pop-culture morality tale -- "star says something biased and is forced to prostrate himself in apology and leave the public stage" -- from Hollywood across the country to New York and Washington (a.k.a. Hollywood For Ugly People):
After radio shock jock Don Imus was forced off the air for comments no worse than many he'd made over the past 35 years, his longtime sidekick, Bernard McGuirk, wondered where along the way the rules had changed. The answer was probably Malibu, California, where Mel Gibson was pulled over last July for driving erratically after a night out with some buxom blondes, setting in motion a chain of events that would permanently change the contours of the public debate in America and ultimately lead to Imus' ouster.Read more here. Plus, J. Goodrich explains the trouble with food imports and the FDA, while Alina Hoffman reports on potential efforts to improve the mammoth farm bill in Congress.
--The Editors