I’m an old network hand. He, and anyone he reported to who had any reason to know about his tendency to do this sort of thing should have been axed. A few years back, I worked with a former producer for another network, who bragged about how she regularly staged news coverage and her superiors wholeheartedly approved. If the MSM is ever to recover even the slightest hint of credibility, a wholesale house cleaning is in order. Anything else is just a sham.
I was ABC Radio in NY for a while, then CBS TV side.
You?
PS: networks are toast, and the suits know it.