A recent issue of Consumer Reports features a disheveled, exhausted, and unshaven physician on its cover. The physician is shown holding a nearly full martini glass, and a pill bottle in the pocket of his white coat bumps into the stethoscope around his neck. The cover also highlights ratings on washers, dryers, and lawn mowers, the risks and rewards of reverse mortgages, and assessments of Lexus RX, Lincoln MKX, and BMW 7 series automobiles. All these items, doctors, lawn mowers, mortgages, and BMWs, are proffered by Consumer Reports as newsworthy objects for public scrutiny.