OCTOBER 27, 2017 / At the Houston Chronicle . . .

. . . dog bites man is a front-page story; man bites dog goes on page A11.

The confirmation this week that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid an opposition-research firm for a "dossier" on Donald Trump is bombshell news. 

So writes Kimberley A. Strassel (Potomac Watch: "The Coming Russia Bombshells," October 27, 2017, The Wall Street Journal). 

This bombshell exploded last Tuesday. The Washington Post broke the story. The Chronicle subscribes, and has long subscribed, to the Post's feed. Back in the day, this meant that Woodward's and Bernstein's Watergate bombshells were regularly on the local newspaper's front page.

But that was then.