What happens when you think you have an exclusive interview with Ashley Smith, the hostage in the Atlanta shooting case who is the hottest news commodity of the day….and you lose it to a competitor?
Well, if you’re unluckly your competitor’s camera catches you exploding in the background of the interview your rival show is doing and police have to almost drag you off.
Read about it and watch it here.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.