The "lion's den case," as South Africa's tabloid press calls it, has earned front-page play since word of the four arrests became public on Monday.

Trouble in Congo gets front-page play at the LAT , and runs inside elsewhere.

Star editor Tina Brown's resignation from the New Yorker receives front-page play at all papers.

The NYT also gives Iraq front-page play.

The WP gives front-page play to a study by Dartmouth medical researchers about the health-care treatment Americans receive at the end of their lives.

Everyone but the WP gives front-page play to the continuing Northwest Airlines pilot strike.

Once a corner of the newsroom as lifeless as the morgue, business departments now produce their own sections and supplements, with front-page play frequent.

That was a news story deserving its front-page play and subsequent editorial.

I found the front-page play given one story peculiar and inappropriate.

Also receiving much front-page play today: the continuing developments at the Senate campaign funding hearings.