The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Out on a Limb
“Iran’s Leader Could Order Arrest of Opposition Leaders”–headline, Washington Post website, Feb. 15

That’ll Keep Out the Cheeseheads and Hoosiers
“Nearly Half of Chicago-Area Borders to Close”–headline, ChicagoBreakingBusiness.com, Feb. 16

Bottom Stories of the Day

  • “No Swim Advisory Issued for Parts of Lake Wylie”–headline, Lake Wylie (S.C.) Pilot, Feb. 16
  • “High-Speed Chase Results in No One Hurt, No Damage”–headline, Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, Ga.), Feb. 15
  • “Russians Don’t Accuse the US of Shooting Down Their Satellite With EMP Weaponry”–headline, News.com.au, Feb. 15

One Man’s Reuterville Is Another Man’s Cairo
Yahoo! News reports on a hilarious twist in a contract dispute between Thomson Reuters [News agency] and the Newspaper Guild of America:

In a letter circulated Friday shortly after Egyptian protesters succeeded in ousting Hosni Mubarak from his 30-year autocratic rule, the Guild, which represents 420 U.S. Reuters employees (mostly editorial staffers, of which there are 2,900 globally), circulated a letter that seized on the timing of the revolution, which Reuters journalists have been covering.

“Historians will consider in years to come what was at the heart of this upheaval but what seems evident now is that it sprang from long-running and expanding inequality between Egypt’s rich and poor, powerful and powerless. When the poor and powerless unite, though, they can speak with a loud voice,” reads the letter, which was also posted online. “From Tahrir Square to Times Square, inequality is something Guild members know about, especially this week as Thomson Reuters released stellar corporate results for last year and the last quarter.”

Reuters headquarters is in Times Square. Yahoo! News quotes an unidentified Reuters staffer: “This is an inappropriate comparison and a number of guild members are unhappy about this tone. What next? Are we laboring under the yoke the way Martin Luther King Jr did?” (Actually, Dr. King had a solidly middle-class upbringing and can hardly be said to have been “laboring under the yoke,” although he did help to liberate millions for whom this description would be far more apt.)

Why would a denizen of Reuterville object to such a comparison? Isn’t it in the stylebook that one man’s contract dispute is another man’s revolution?

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