IN NEW YORK, SCRAPPY LOCAL NEWSPAPER STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL:

Perhaps the Gray Lady is employing the latest Associated Press Style Book’s guidelines to writing articles about looting:

Note that Kruesi’s Twitter byline reads, “‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’ Anyways. I’m an AP reporter.”

Evergreen:

(Classical reference in headline.)

UPDATE (5:28 EDT): CNN has also apparently adopted the AP Style Book’s take on looting, as not much appeared to have happened in New York last night, based on their homepage right now: