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as usual ----other Phillly radio stations likely let KYW cover the crash.

has the engineer been identified ? Was he killed ?
seems likely he was going much too fast but
the investigation will reveal the cause .
 
This morning the Inky ran an AP story on the crash. There was a time when any decent paper would have been embarrassed to run a wire service story on even a routine local story, let alone a major story. Not the Inquirer. Not any more.

KYW-TV preempted Letterman so they could show helicopter shots of a train on its side over and over, and so some Barbie Mic Holder could prattle repeatedly how they didn't know anything. Then they broke for a little grandstanding from Mayor Nutsy, who is about to leave office and has nothing to do with Amtrak or rail transportation, saying he doesn't know anything. It was a complete waste - nothing there that couldn't have been "covered" with a crawl and a quick PiP showing the train on its side. Yet KYW-TV preempted Letterman (with only a week to go) and a chunks of the prime time schedule - including some network spots. Maybe there will be a call from Black Rock this morning and somebody will be fired - god willing.

If the newsies felt they had to go wall to wall, despite the fact that the train and the news were already broken, they could have done a crawl on the main channel and done their talkathon on Decades (3.2) and/or 57.

It will be weeks, if not months, before investigators make a report. In any case, go to an AP app on your smartphone. This is not the place to find news. Neither is radio for that matter.
 
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as usual ----other Phillly radio stations likely let KYW cover the crash.

has the engineer been identified ? Was he killed ?
seems likely he was going much too fast but
the investigation will reveal the cause .
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Why do you assume the engineer was a male ?
 
Did Fred's ghost return? :cool:

Of course the other radio stations didn't cover it (though this morning, 1210 was, during the time I heard, doing some coverage/discussion. How is it "letting" someone do something? They don't run news departments on the chance that once in a blue moon something tragic happens. At 10 at night. People know where to go to get the news, and if they want it, they can get it. If they want music (or sports or what have you), they know where to go get that as well. It wasn't 9/11, it wasn't hurricane Sandy. It was horrible to be sure, but nothing was out of line in the response.
 
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as usual ----other Phillly radio stations likely let KYW cover the crash.
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As usual, the music stations kept playing music and "let" the news station cover the news. It ain't right, I tell ya.





Except that it is exactly right.
 
Bob, why did the byline say the writer was an AP staff writer?

In all fairness, some stories by Inky staff have started appearing on the website but way too late for the paper. And also in all fairness, the Times had their own story in the paper and they are 90 miles away. But then, they are the Times and the Inky has been nothing since Gene Roberts left.

Lest we forget, there is another radio news station in town. WHYY-FM's piece led hour 2 of Morning Edition and was an excellent job. Clear, concise, to the point and with good detail. Everything KYW-TV was not.
 
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My Inquirer lists the byline as Inquirer Staff Writer (Paul Nussbaum, to be precise). The footer doesn't even include a notice that the AP contributed to the report.
 
Bob Eubanks said:
My Inquirer lists the byline as Inquirer Staff Writer (Paul Nussbaum, to be precise). The footer doesn't even include a notice that the AP contributed to the report.
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Nussbaum's story was posted at 9:18, too late for any print edition.
Before that, the main story on the crash was from AP writer Michael Sisak, posted at 1:33am. Sisak's story also ran in the Daily News (and, of course, papers around the country).
Clearly, the Inky is playing catch-up. TV had choppers and ground crews out by 10pm. Where was the Inquirer? We all know it's gone downhill but so far downhill?
 
I can't tell you when it was posted to their website. I can tell you I read it in the print replica edition at 4:45 this morning. It made print editions, even if there was a delay for whatever reason in having it posted to the site. Compared to what was being reported on the comparable morning news at that time, they had the same information, such as it was/is until investigations are complete.
 
The engineer was male. He is alive. The train was going over 100mph when it went into the curve. The speed limit there is 50. The engineer won't say anything and has a lawyer.

Meanwhile, the mayor preempted Bill Clinton's appearance last night on Letterman. T-shirt is the least he can do.

And the house is blocking added funding for Amtrak.
 
MarcB said:
KYW 1060 dropped the ball. They missed the first minute (or so) of Mayor Nutter's Press Conference that took place around 11:40PM because they were in a commercial break. What genius runs commercials during "Breaking News?" WPHT 1210 carried all of Mayor Nutter's Press Conference because they were simulcasting KYW-TV CBS 3.
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Something that KYW 1060 should start doing, simulcasting CBS 3 for major breaking news events.
 
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slick lawyers coming up with an excuse for the engineer as we speak .
such as---- the engineer is on medication .
 
In such a case, how many people on forums such as this would then be complaining that KYW was handing off to the TV side of the house?
 
Well, da mare should have waited for KYW to finish its spot break. He probably would have 35 years ago when KYW had clout, buzz and relevance.
Alternatively, KYW should have pulled out of the spot and then given the client a make-good.
And how do you all know KYW wasn't getting its audio from TV?
 
Seems to me the mayor was foolish to wait until after the local TV stations had wrapped up their news. Had he gone on at 11:03, he would have had a much larger audience. Then again, he really didn't have a whole lot to say.
 
Brandon Bostian age 32 of NYC was the engineer operating the train .
would he have been tested for drugs & Alcohol after the crash.? Sure hope so.
 
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