FPD Gets Its Man

Give the Fitchburg Police Department credit, they arrested someone in the convenience store shooting yesterday.

There are a lot of reasons for this to be a bad story for the city -- war veteran shot with an assault rifle on the overnight shift sums it up very briefly -- but a quick arrest is a decent silver lining.

The PD takes its beating around here, but in this case they got the job done quickly.

While we're on the subject, a bit of media commentary: Yesterday afternoon, the Sentinel had a streaming banner at the top of the web page with one sentence on the shooting and a refer to today's paper. In the meantime, the Telegram, Boston.com, and every TV station website had stories on the incident. The Sentinel didn't even use its twin cities blog to advance the story. Why? The local paper finishes dead last in the breaking news race yesterday.