The Press: Maxims & Moonshine

Though the proof is not always in the perusing, the independent Toledo Blade and the arch-Republican Los Angeles Times make similar claims to fame. The Blade, according to its masthead, is ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The L.A. Times reaches further, dubs itself ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The World's Greatest Newspaper? By decree of the late Colonel Bertie McCormick, that title was taken by his own Chicago Daily Tribune in 1911. As a staffer shrugged last week, "We can hardly back down now."

Almost unnoticed behind the ominous headlines last week, the...

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