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Meanwhile, TV stations repeatedly gave short shrift to clashes between revelers and police in favor of misty Ray Bourke moments. Sometime after 11 p.m. on Channel 9, for instance, helicopter reporter Tony LaMonica noted that the situation was deteriorating on the 16th Street Mall, after which co-anchors Adele Arakawa and Ward Lucas peppily thanked him for his efforts and signed off for the evening. The principal exception to this rule was KOA, whose correspondents were in the middle of the mayhem: At one point, Alex Stone was teargassed live -- "Can't...talk!" he gagged -- and a few minutes later, Jason Luber screamed into the microphone before declaring, "I've just been Maced!" Yet back at the studio, co-host Jon Caldara spent his energy praising the cops for their "restraint."

The media was restrained, too -- except when it came to gushing about the Avs. Shouldn't it have been the other way around?