Speaking of the Times, the Gray Lady has slipped to sixth in a list of the world's best newspapers.A global poll of journalists, politicians, and business executives named London's Financial Times the best paper on Earth, followed closely by the Wall Street Journal and Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine. The Times was named the world's premiere paper in 2003, when 21 percent of those surveyed called it the best, but just 8 percent made the same claim in this year's poll.
I think the Times' belief in their invincibility dates back to their beating Nixon in The Pentagon Papers. Since then, they've thought of themselves as untouchable.
No more.