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Nexstar, the largest station owner in the U.S., is having its TV stations run news stories that are aimed at rallying support for changing ownership rules.

We can’t go on rallying only for each successive crisis or onstage moment — a post-riot rebuilding, a library fire, the Olympics — and then claim to be a great city in between.

Black bowls through the movie like the king of the sandbox, the lord of the playground, rallying the rest of us to join him on a quest that he’s made up on the spot.

Clearly, the Morecambe Bay report was not, as was hoped, a line in the sand for maternity services across England, or a rallying cry for widespread improvements.

In some ways, that became kind of the rallying cry of the whole piece: We just want to fight for some space and some respect ….