http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/11/29/karma/ Suspicious packages, and more Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/11/29/karma/#comment-3952 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:29:01 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=4321#comment-3952 Oh crap. Karma is a good thing… helping out another crew only came back to help me… i hoped. BUT… there was a time.. if a news director (name withheld by request) found out i helped another crew? … man.

]]> http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/11/29/karma/#comment-3934 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:24:57 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=4321#comment-3934 Dear Doug,
May you wonder no more, I most certainly would have made you a dub of the juror interviews had I seen your dilemma during the Gold Club Trial. And what a group those jurors made; six of them showed up to hear Gold Club Owner Steve Kaplan’s sentencing, to ask the judge for leniency. None of us senior reporters had ever seen anything else like that in Georgia.
Years earlier, in another very important trial involving an Atlanta police officer, it was WXIA and Jon Shirek who missed a huge part of news that was breaking around that story.
Without being asked, I had our photographer make a dub for Channel 11 and gave it to them.
Had our managers known…ho boy! It’s wonderful how Karma comes around. Miss you all.
Lynn Harasin Johnson
Maine

]]> http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/11/29/karma/#comment-3908 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:10:29 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=4321#comment-3908 I never gave a competitor this exact form of help. But I did once loan my equipment for a few minutes to a cross-town rival crew that, due to a logistical snafu, wound up at a news scene nearly two hours from home without a camera. The fact that the reporter who had to beg me for help was very cute had nothing to do with me saying yes.

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