Did you hear it was almost the end of 2007? Notice how everything in the thin post-Xmas newspapers was apparently written in October, mostly about dumb movies and bad records that came out in July?
Welcome to the precious Main Stream Media tradition of the "year-end round-up," because something's got to go in the paper while everybody's on vacation.
Here's my contribution to that most noble of journalistic traditions: Hated '07? Then You'll Despise Election '08!