Sorry, it escaped our attention before today, but we’re smack in the middle of National Newspaper Week, a special week dedicated to making those in the newspaper profession feel worthwhile and important. It’s as easy a conceit to mock as any other National Fill-In-The-Blank Week, but we’re above that sort of thing here. Besides which, the newspaper profession was the only thing putting bread in our mouths for five years, and we are not ingrates.

This year, the theme of National Newspaper Week is, “Your Newspaper: Your Community’s Town Hall.” They mean it metaphorically.