Two weeks ago, Ronald A. Stearney Jr., a lawyer for the family of the 6-year-old boy killed in the Dec. 8 plane accident outside Midway Airport, thought he had prepared a pool arrangement to “spare the family from an onslaught of interviews.”
It involved an exclusive interview with the Today Show — but Stearney wasn’t happy when it appeared on WMAQ the night before. As Phil Rosenthal explains, this story involves WMAQ reporter Amy Jacobson, news chief Frank Whittaker, boss Larry Wert, Today producer Jen Gentile, EP Jim Bell, CNN anchor Paula Zahn, and MSNBC’s Rita Cosby. Here it is…
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