Is it just me or did political correctness die in 2007?

Correctness also faded as other media posed provocative questions in the name of fact-finding

It was the year political correctness died–2007. Once a simple effort to promote good manners, correctness evolved into a campaign of vigorous witch hunts until this, too, grew humdrum. It couldn't last. Who has the energy for perpetual indignation?

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