If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about your belief that you’re the white reincarnation of Martin Luther King Jr.; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about your dead-people voter registration drive; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about all those bodies you dug up to steal their fillings; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about the housing development you’re building exclusively for sex offenders; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about your bill in the Arizona legislature looking to deport all immigrants and descendants of immigrants; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about the surprise you put in the Big Mac special sauce; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you pissed somebody off, …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about the kids you’ve got making the t-shirts you sell; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you pissed somebody off, and you better figure …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about how you managed to eat through a bank vault; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you pissed somebody off, and you better figure out how to …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about the knock-off Rolexes you were selling at the sheriff’s office; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you pissed somebody off, and you better figure out how to fix things, …

In this week’s edition of Cheers and Regards, we’re going to change the format a little and take a look at the story that seemed to dominate the news cycle of much of last week: Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings’ profile of U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the now former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The piece caused so much discussion, created so much fallout (President Obama accepted the general’s resignation just two days after the RS piece went up online, a day before it was even …