The Boston Globe
Andrew Dubrovsky recalls the adrenaline rush he felt when multiple news helicopters raced to a breaking story, desperately trying to beat rival TV stations to the scene.
“It was a zoo up there,” recalled Dubrovsky, 60, a former WHDH-TV (Channel 7) cameraman who traveled with the station’s news chopper for three decades and watched the stations jockey for the best aerial shots. “Everybody would be in each other’s way.”
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