LaPierre on the loose...on the beach?

[Sean Smyth]

Steve O. writes:
<< Likewise, back in the mid-late 90s the AM drive newsperson we had on
WJYY was a single mother with small children.  A real hassle to find a
sitter at 5am, so we had an ISDN line installed at her house, and set up
a small mixer.  Wire copy was either faxed to her or she got it off the
web.  I doubt anyone cared that she was not in the studio. >>

The only problem with Gary's situation is he's not 10 minutes away, 20
minutes away, sipping coffee while sitting in his long-johns or
baby-sitting and he's not on air just three times an hour with 3-minute
updates ... he's in Florida, practically half a country away.

Yes, he can rip and read the wire copy (or view it online) and, yes, he
can interact just the same as if he was at 1170 SFR. There is a
difference to reading/watching the news and being in the area to
experience it - I can tell you this just from spending three weeks in
Boston leading up to last week Patriots' game and spending this week
here in sunny, chilly Happy Valley and experiencing the news solely via
the Internet (and occasionally peeking at Channel 38's 10 p.m. news).

I know Scott wasn't trying to say exactly this but his earlier post
pretty much said (paraphrasing here), "There's a dozen other people
writing the news, Gary's just reading it." Sure, but that pretty much
just reduces him to the level of one of those dreaded Sinclair weather
guys in Hunt Valley, right? Doesn't matter whether he's lived in Reading
for a bazillion years or not.