[BC] Dealing with Protes tors

[Xen Scott]

At 02:30 PM 1/7/06 -0500, Rich Wood wrote:
>------ At 11:14 PM 1/6/2006, Xen Scott wrote: -------
>
>>Once, back in the 1970's while working for a TV station in 
>>Philadelphia, I had
>>the experience of having a bunch of animal rights protesters force 
>>their way into
>>a studio where a show was in progress....

>A good promotion department would have put them on the air. I've 
>hired protesters in the past and got more publicity than I could 
>ever hoped to have paid for. When WOR hired Bob Grant we had all the 
>usual suspects parading in front of cameras on Broadway. Jesse 
>Jackson was there. Al Sharpton was there. They left as soon as the 
>cameras did, but it brought us a series of terrific rating books.

Putting the animal rights group that forced their way into KYW-TV on 
the air would not have been
a good idea.  This group became known as "Move" and later was 
involved in a couple of armed
barricade situations during which both police and members of the 
group were shot and killed.
The end came when the police used a helicopter to drop a bomb on a 
West Phila. row-house where
they were holed-up and keeping the police pinned down with 
gunfire.  The resulting explosions
from stock-piled ammunition and subsequent fire burned several city 
blocks of homes and caused several more deaths.  There were multiple 
lawsuits against the city of Philadelphia.

You might not hire protesters today.  The risk of having the 
situation taken over by unknown
outsiders and the consequences that could arise is too great.

Xen Scott