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Shooting the messenger
By adamg on Fri, 04/07/2006 - 1:36pm
This just in! Two of the people who were involved in that December car accident with Cambridge city councilor and would-be state senator Anthony Galluccio did not contact Channel 5 reporter Janet Wu to tip her off about the accident. Repeat, they did not call Wu first.
I know, let the full implications of that sink in for a moment. Besides, as the Alewife, which breathlessly reports this fact, adds: Developing...
Seems the Alewife has decided how Wu got the story is more important than the fact that a prominent city official may face drunk-driving charges (Galluccio's hearing is April 28). Give writer Neil McCabe credit, of a sort, for calling Wu up (so she could then decline to say how she got the story).
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Comments
this is not about the accident or what happened or didn't happen
it has always intrigued me why some stories break and others don't. more often than not, high-impact stories are hand-delivered with a space at the top for the reporter to write in his name.
when the galluccio car accident story broke, one of the participants put out the whole story on his blog. so, i assumed that he had been the tipster. but, it turns out the blogger is a lawyer, who told me he had no interest in making the case public.
he and others suggested to me that the tipster was attorney david w. water-lief, who represents one of the people in the crash and who has a reputation for using the media on behalf of his clients.
when i called water-lief, he told me that he did not want the case played out in the media. he acknowlegded it was out of character for him, but it seemed the best way to handle things as they moved through the legal system. in fact, when he sent his letter complaining about the police handling of the accident to commissioner o'toole in january, he was careful to keep it out of the press.
two lawyers involved in the accident told me they wanted it quiet, one a blogger, the other a publicity hound. there is a good chance, others involved got the same advice. besides, if someone from the accident wanted to get it in the papers, he wouldn't wait two months. would he?
this is not about the accident or what happened or didn't happen. it is my curiosity as to who did wu's work for her.