InDigestible: The decline of a great magazine.

There's probably no agreeing on precisely when Reader's Digest took a turn for the worse. There was the move last year to stick a celebrity photograph on the cover of every issue, rather than the picture of an ordinary American whose story of heroism would inspire readers. Two years earlier, there was the magazine's redesign, which elevated graphics and visuals to a place of importance that previously had been reserved for the power of the written word. Around the same time, the magazine dropped its familiar slogan promising "Thirty-one articles each month . . . Each article of enduring value and interest." There aren't 31 articles each month anymore-the February 2002 ...