LaPierre on the loose...on the beach?

[Sean Smyth]

Donna writes:
<< And Dave Maynard has been doing the same thing for years.  Again,
it's 
quite misleading if a newsperson says they are in one place when in
reality 
they aren't in that place at all-- that's an ethical violation, such as 
when years back a reporter (I believe it was ABC's Cokie Roberts)
claimed 
she was standing in front of  the White House but in fact, she was back
at 
the studio. But I haven't heard Gary say he is sitting in his home in 
Massachusetts.  Gary's been a WBZ employee since 1964 and if technology 
permits him to have a nice home in a warmer climate and still do his
job, 
what's the harm?  He is a commentator, and he can comment from 
anywhere.   I am glad that Boston.com told us where to send our Xmas
cards 
to him, but I still fail to see the problem. >>

The incident you're referring to had Cokie "standing" in front of the
Capital with "snow" whirrling around her when she was really in ABC's
Washington studios. I have only listened off-and-on to Gary in recent
winters but I've never heard anything that sounded misleading as to his
broadcast locale. I wonder what the reaction would be if, say, he was
broadcasting from a home studio in Massachusetts instead?