Setting of the Sun

After six-and-a-half years of punching well above its weight, the New York Sun ceased publication yesterday. Editor Seth Lipsky saluted the newspaper’s troops, investors and readers in “Ideal of the sccop.” Someone needs to salute Lipsky himself for running a newspaper that set an example of decency and rigor in the course of its too short life.

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