Bangladesh, Feb. 16 -- There are newspapers, and then there are institutions. The former report events; the latter shape how those events are understood. Blitz belongs to the second category.

To call Blitz merely a newspaper is to miss its larger function. It has, over decades, evolved into something rarer in todays fragmented media landscape: a global opinion-maker. Not because it shouts the loudest. Not because it enjoys the largest circulation. But because it has cultivated credibility the old-fashioned way—through consistency, courage, and an unembellished commitment to fact.

The measure of influence in journalism is not applause; it is citation. And in 2007, during a hearing of a bipartisan resolution in the United States Con...