Journalists from major outlets have descended on Marion, Kansas, to expound on the war that locally powerful people declared on the newspaper. Read one of these parachute-drop feature stories, and you've basically read them all.

Instead, Big Journalism should collaborate: Dig into the affairs of the public officials who performed the blatantly illegal -- and anti free speech -- seizure of the paper's computers and phones.

Look up "Don Bolles Arizona Project" and you'll see what I mean.