And One Day, They Might Even Review The Book

One advantage of today's electronic media is that it's easy to figure out when one newspaper is lifting its story ideas from another. Two weeks ago, I highlighted a Guardian squib on a Scottish chapel that figures prominently in The Da Vinci Code. Sarah Lyall saw the same story, and now she's turned it into a Times dispatch. A better piece, actually, at least in my opinion, if only because it has more quotes from the sorts of loonies who believe Dan Brown's borrowed theories:

Visiting the chapel the other day, Anthony Lewis, a 35-year-old engineer from Bristol, England, certainly hoped it was true. What, he wasn't sure. But something. "I think there's a code in there," said Mr. Lewis, who says he believes that the Holy Grail explains the mysteries of death and is broken into small pieces that are scattered in sacred hot spots around the world. "Something is probably hidden in there somewhere, and whoever cracks the code will find it."