Newspapers missed the brief moment when the government was an easy touch for bail-outs of one "vital" industry or another.
Here's what happened in season five of The Wire when almost no one -- among the working press, at least -- was looking: Our newspaper missed every major story.
"At a moment when blood drips from the newspapers, 'Miss Bala' concerns itself with something unexplored: the secret life of panic, the way that crime invades the everyday and mentally corrodes people who are outside its actions," the novelist and essayist Juan Villoro wrote.
Broadcasters and newspapers were missing a opportunity to meet a desire for more coverage of women's sport.
Ilán Lieberman's "Lost Child" series consists of a stream of hand-drawn thumbnail portraits, based on photographs in Mexican newspapers, of missing children.
I confess I thought that journalism was still self-aware enough to get it, that enough collective consciousness of the craft's highest calling remained, that reporters still worried about what their newspapers were missing.
The newspapers I miss most are at the weekends.
Websites that work best are an inch wide and a mile deep".What is more, in America, at least, the newspapers have missed the boat.
The tabloid press is outraged, running images of Spitfire fighters over Dover's white cliffs, and calling a foreign owner "unthinkable".Such pantomime jingoism sells newspapers, but misses the nuanced position of locals.
— says that this will be fatal: I sincerely do hope that I read the wrong newspapers and missed all those European economists and commentators screaming all these things (or even better: that I am wrong).
