While the Boston Herald most often serves as a lively index to the Boston Globe, sometimes the feisty tabloid kicks the boring broadsheet’s ass.

Case in point: Saturday’s dead tree editions of the local dailies.

The Herald, for its part, had this story:

Jeff Derderian takes job as media critic

Former Channel 7 reporter Jeff Derderian has quietly returned to the business as an online media critic in Providence, nearly eight years after the tragic Station nightclub fire forced him to step away from a thriving TV news career.

Derderian, co-owner of the former Station nightclub in Rhode Island where 100 people died in a February 2003 blaze — has been working as a paid contributor for GoLocalProv.com, an 8-month-old news and information Web site.

The Globe had . . . nothing.

Making matters even worse, Globe mothership New York Times had this:

Once in Glare of the Media, Club Owner Is Now a Critic

BOSTON — The former owner of a nightclub in Rhode Island who drew news media scrutiny when 100 people died at the club in a 2003 fire has quietly re-emerged as a media critic.

Jeffrey Derderian, a former television reporter who was one of the owners of the nightclub, the Station, in West Warwick, R.I., has been contributing to the hyperlocal blog golocalprov.comas a media critic for a month.

Interestingly, both the Herald and the Times illustrated their reports with this photo:

Who’s crying now?