Three days since zero hour and things are starting to stabilize. Tuner Broadcasting has offered to compensate Boston and the other affected cities for their trouble, unnecessarily, I think. In the newsroom where I work, we are sent daily the logs of the various police departments in our area. Judging from them, a large amount—the largest amount—of the work the police does is investigating reports that turn out to be nothing. What law enforcement agencies did Wednesday was their job and what they’re there for. Turner is not responsible for those costs. Now, if the company wants to pay, it’s the company’s money, and it can do what it wants with it.

As for the nearly-racist treatment of the two “suspects” by some in Boston, I think it’s shameful. I’m usually not one to go blabbering on about what it means to be an American, but I do think it has something to do with judging people (in the legal sense) only by the law, not by their attitude, appearance, personality, nationality, or, most importantly, taste in TV shows.