Editor and Publisher also noticed the prominent play given to two climate change stories by the Washington Post and the NYT:

Two Top Papers Ask: Is the Earth Heading for Doom--With an Assist from the White House?

While most Americans remain preoccupied with war, terrorism, high gas prices--or the coming Pitt-Jolie baby--an issue that may dwarf all of those concerns receives major attention on the front page of the Sunday editions of The New York Times and The Washington Post.

One story raises a nightmare global warming scenario for the end of the world, at least as we know it, while the other suggests that the Bush administration doesn't want anyone to know about that.

In a (firewall-protected) NYT op-ed piece, Ted Koppel, late of ABC News, lambastes U.S. television news.

An NYT piece has the following recommendations about 'za in the land that gave birth to the world's most perfect form of food:

Going to Naples without eating pizza, its best-known culinary invention, is heresy. Pizza is a religion there, and the Neapolitans have solved its most common challenge with the quattro stagioni, which is divided into four sections, each with a different topping. Da Michele, (4) Via Cesare Sersale 1/3, (39-081) 5539204, www.damichele.net, is perhaps the city's most revered pizzeria. Those not in the mood for crowds - or a margherita or marinara pizza, its only offerings, at $4.50 to $5.70 - should head for another, more comfortable Da Michele, with a different (and distantly related) owner, (5) at Via Giuseppe Martucci 61, (39-081) 19576887; closed Monday. Its huge $8.25 quattro stagioni is topped with ham, artichokes, mozzarella and mushroom.

Harper Lee, the very private author of To Kill A Mockingbird, made an appearance at a luncheon celebrating an essay contest about the book for Alabama high school students.