Another story that gets near-universal front-page treatment is the president's news conference yesterday about things fiscal.

Every morning a raft of atrocities that would get front-page treatment in Britain is given barely a paragraph in the local press.

The in-depth coverage and front-page treatment you've given this frightening phenomenon helps tremendously in alerting the public to the danger.

Particularly gruesome killings, especially when the victim is white, get front-page treatment.

Some industry watchers said that the front-page treatment in The Times could only help lift sales of the book.

Her death hadn't even merited front-page treatment, just a sidebar in this morning's Press and Journal.

The Daily News gave it the front-page treatment.

But the major Italian dailies still gave front-page treatment to Zoeggeler's gold medal.

All this received front-page treatment in the press.

The Times often does a good job monitoring cultural controversies, but what kind of Watergate story deserved front-page treatment at this late date?