RE: Boston Globe Online / Metro | Region / WPRI reporter's link to club stirs ethical questions

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>]

Kevin:
> WPRI captured the fire as it happened....but should they have
> been there
> in the first pace?

My understanding is that the reporter was there working up a B-piece on
the actual issue of "club safety" on the heels of the Chicago debacle.
It was happenstance that the camera rolled as the fire took hold.  Good
move on the camera operator's part to back-out of the scene when s/he
did.

Bill O'Neill