From serious business journal to spewer of pop psychology.

It wasn’t all that long ago Fortune Magazine was a sober journal of business. Under the the direction of the late Marshall Loeb, it expanded its editorial horizons somewhat to include pieces on topical matters, but  always written in a clear and objective manner.

My how things have changed. Consider this bit of slop, which dribbled onto your Tatler’s screen this morning.

The Roe v. Wade decision is “pushing people into psychological crisis,” mental health expert warns

By Alexa Mikhail, 18 hrs ago

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A pro-choice supporter cries outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022. Olivier Douliery—AFP via Getty Images

From the article:

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision guaranteeing federal protection of abortion rights, experts warn of dire mental health consequences. Frank C. Worrell, president of the American Psychological Association (APA) calls for mental health providers to support people as they grapple with their reproductive health decisions.

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With abortion access now left up to the states, Dr. Carolyn M. West, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Washington, Tacoma, highlights the mental impact of those who live with an abusive domestic partner who may be forced to stay in contact with them due to being denied access to an abortion.

“You’re going to have to be managing a pregnancy in the midst of a really unhealthy, unsafe intimate partner relationship, and so that will have profound mental health impacts,” West says. “Being forced to carry their pregnancy to term, that can lead to certain higher rates of depression…particularly when you’re struggling to provide basic necessities for yourself and a child.”

This is but a sampling. There is much more in the article for those interested.

Your Tatler isn’t sure which is more lamentable here, the mushy psycho-babble gushing from supposed professionals in a field that enjoyed a certain utility once, or the decline of a formally respected journal that once had decent reporting on its pages. It’s a toss up.

So where does one begin picking through this tripe? In the case of your Tatler, who is congenitally lazy, one chooses not to. Idiocy such as this speaks (or babbles) for itself and to add further commentary might lead to the silly notion there is actual substance in the piece worthy of it.