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Re: April foolery

To: BRI <bri@bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: April foolery
From: Tony Abruzzese <abruzzese@biochem.bumc.bu.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:10:52 -0500
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Richard Chonak wrote:

>
>Do broadcast news directors have to exercise any special vigilance to
>keep their staffs from propagating phony stories, or even producing
>them, on April 1?
>
>--RC
>  
>
They do in Boston... At least they do since the "eruption of Great Blue 
Hill" back in the 80's.
(A topic that resurfaces here on the BRI list on occasion).

Was it the Assistant News Director at Channel 7 (then WNEV) who lost his 
job over that one?
I don't recall all of the details, but I do remember seeing the  broadcast.

Tony

References:
- April foolery
  - From: Richard Chonak <chonak@yahoo.com>

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