I happened to have been home yesterday (had a new dishwasher delivered) and was watching the Fox New Channel through most of their reporting, and I have to say that at least in my view they didn't go overboard at all.

As might be expected, they were somewhat over-covering the Libian news of the compound being penetrated (OK, I suppose it was a pretty big thing) when all of a sudden they cut off commentary from someone near the compound and reported that there had been an earthquake. They said many buildings had evacuated, commented on how strange it looked to have so many people standing around, but pretty quickly they started emphasizing that it wasn't really a big deal, that the area didn't get many earthquakes so the buildings would need to be inspected before they'd likely let folks back in, and kept telling viewers that there really wasn't a need to be concerned - that they just needed to be patient. Oh, and it encouraged folks in the area to limit phone use to help keep communications open.

They did say that the commute back home would be tough for lots of folks since underground transportation areas and bridges were likely to be temporarily closed for inspctions. THAT would have certainly not been fun for mass transit commuters.

The only damage mentioned was the report of a leaning Washington Monument (but they said that was unconfirmed), they said their people saw ceiling tiles falling from some buildings, they showed a video of the top of a brick wall that had crumbled, and that was about it.

At some point they had a reporter standing in a grocery store near ground zero. Maybe half of the stuff on the shelves was now scattered across the store aisles. I would have guessed that lots of it was still saleable. They said arrangements had been made (hopefully) for local school kids to come help them pick up. I thought that was pretty cool.

Overall my sense was that Fox New Channel reporting was pretty level-headed.