On The Death of TV News Part Four: Sales Tips for the Street

Crime Scene, originally uploaded by freefotouk.

Covering mobsters and the FBI required most of the skills or least training if not skills that went all the way back to my days here. I had to get to know the mob personally. I take a lot of collect calls from prison.—this just in: they’re all innocent. And outside the can, I make a lot of visits. I’ve tracked them, ambushed them, and even dined with some of them afterwards.

On the Death of TV News Part Three: If You Don’t Like the News, Make the News

Vincent J. “Jimmy the Bear” Flemmi, originally uploaded by WBUR.

Third in a series

Somewhere and occasionally in this alternative, non-news universe, I managed to lay claim to my share of legitimate stories or subversively slip content by the producers.