WEEI guy charged in fatal crash

[boobo0]

Not good.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...nk_was_designated_driver/srvc=home&position=5

 

[Smoke]

Just the fact it took more than a day to get that story on here shows how much of a non-issue it is. WEEI will replace him and that's that.

 

[boobo0]

That might be your opinion, and your entitled to that. Your attempt to brush it off as not being relevant shows some sort of bias. Whether or not he'll get replaced isn't the point of posting it, its news. The story of who was involved didn't come out until yesterday morning. Thx for the effort to down play it though.

 

[mistermicrophone]

Just the fact it took more than a day to get that story on here shows how much of a non-issue it is.

You want to tell the victim's family that?

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

Just the fact it took more than a day to get that story on here shows how much of a non-issue it is.

You want to tell the victim's family that?

Yes, it's a non-issue...to this board. The fact that someone did what people do all the time...drove drunk and killed someone...and that someone happened to be employed by WEEI...doesn't make him any different from anyone else who ever did the same thing. The transparent attempt to smear WEEI by association is an indication of just how far those who suffer from EDS will go.

Fercryinoutloud...let it go already.

 

[Neanderpaul]

Is it me...or does this story actually really expose an anti-WEEI bias?

The guy wasn't an 'EEI employee. According to the Boston Herald report:

"Metro Networks confirmed that Finnerty - who tried out for a weekend host job on WEEI - is an on-air employee who does sports news flashes for WEEI."

So...if my comprehension is correct, he's a Metro Networks employee, subcontracted to do sports reports. He did "try out" for WEEI, but he's not really employed by the station. Kinda like all the different traffic reporters. But I guess seeing "WEEI Guy" is better copy than "Metro Networks." You can bet your backside that if this kid saved the lives of a family by running into a home ablaze, the copy would read:

"Local Radio Employee..."

Funny how the station calls are subjectively employed when the story is negative.

...or perhaps I'm the only one who sees an outdated medium trying to tear down the most immediate communications medium.

Possibly...

 

[dyeingeye]

Finnerty did some weekend shifts after the Bradford show started, mostly Saturdays when there wasn't a BC football game.

 

[TravisWMLN]

Is it me...or does this story actually really expose an anti-WEEI bias?

The guy wasn't an 'EEI employee. According to the Boston Herald report:

"Metro Networks confirmed that Finnerty - who tried out for a weekend host job on WEEI - is an on-air employee who does sports news flashes for WEEI."

So...if my comprehension is correct, he's a Metro Networks employee, subcontracted to do sports reports. He did "try out" for WEEI, but he's not really employed by the station. Kinda like all the different traffic reporters. But I guess seeing "WEEI Guy" is better copy than "Metro Networks." You can bet your backside that if this kid saved the lives of a family by running into a home ablaze, the copy would read:

"Local Radio Employee..."

Funny how the station calls are subjectively employed when the story is negative.

...or perhaps I'm the only one who sees an outdated medium trying to tear down the most immediate communications medium.

Possibly...

why would the herald be biased to be anti-weei? EEI has a bunch of their columnists on the airwaves while keeping any globe staffers off...ps has anyone noticed how the herald is about half the size it used to be?

 

[Neanderpaul]

why would the herald be biased to be anti-weei? EEI has a bunch of their columnists on the airwaves while keeping any globe staffers off...ps has anyone noticed how the herald is about half the size it used to be?

Obviously, I'm not in town. But I figured, given the D&C negative vibe, they might want to pile on. I really want to point out the whole "if it's bad...call letters" if it's good; "a local radio station"

Both print media and TV seem to have that bias. Happens everywhere. Yet, they have no problem advertising their nightly news on our airwaves Guess you gotta pay for mentions eh?

 

[DJbobo]

Finnerty did some weekend shifts after the Bradford show started, mostly Saturdays when there wasn't a BC football game.

Technically, he was an employee of the outsourcing company - Metro. Just because someone from the Herald, Fox25 or another media outlet does a weekend shift on WEEI doesn't make them station's employee or personality.

The great Gamere did a fill-in or two at WEEI in the past year. The Herald headline didn't refer to him as WEEI employee when he got arrested last month.

 

[Deleted User]

He pleaded guilty to the DWI charge, the vehicular manslaughter charge was dropped after expert testimony said it didn't matter if someone was drunk or sober the accident was unavoidable.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091106homicide_rap_dropped_in_fatal_oui/


A motor vehicle homicide charge has been dismissed against a former WEEI on-air sports news reader who struck and killed a Cambridge teenager while driving drunk last November.

Robert Finnerty, 27, was supposed to be the designated driver and was heading home from Game On! in Kenmore Square when authorities say he hit 19-year-old Michael Riley on Soldiers Field Road.

Finnerty, a former Metro Networks employee who did sports news updates, called “flashes,” for WEEI-AM (850), pleaded guilty to operating under the influence last week at Brighton District Court.