We may not have as cool a city, but we now have a better hometown newspaper than our northern neighbor. Yes, it’s official — the Post rules supreme over the once veritable New York Times, or so says media junkie and academic Jay Rosen:

Just one man’s opinion, but now is a good time to say it: The New York Times is not any longer — in my mind — the greatest newspaper in the land. Nor is it the base line for the public narrative that it once was. Some time in the least year or so I moved the Washington Post into that position … The Post, I believe, is our great national newspaper now; the Times is number two, with the Wall Street Journal close behind. Still a strong fleet. With a new ship in the lead perhaps it will sail to unexpected places.

To our media friends on 15th Street from whom we have taken so much — we salute you.