About twenty years ago, The Washington Post had "media critic". One could occasionally read in his column what the New York Times had said about an article in T

About twenty years ago, The Washington Post had "media critic". One could occasionally read in his column what the New York Times had said about an article in The Washington Post. I'm not sure whether the recursion was ever carried farther than than. But it has been going on for a long time. And if you count entertainment, it's worse. The space given to the show Succession this past week in the metropolitan papers probably would hold a small-town newspaper's weekday edition.