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

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

cameraman lucky dude I agree

but given the fact that the bar was owned by a Channel 12 staffer raises 
the issue on why he was there

If nothing had happened and Jeff had just done the report as planned, 
would he have said he owned the bar? Judging from his work at Channel 7, 
I think he would have, sadly we will never know



On 02/22/03 at 10:26 AM Bill O'Neill wrote:
>  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