The most exasperating, if utterly predictable, lesson from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. contretemps was not about race. It was about the persistent vapidity and superficiality of the news media, even at a time of serious national crisis. And it was another tutorial in the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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