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NBC NEWS PRODUCER ALLOWED ON PHIL SPECTOR JURY
RADAR - The media are often accused of acting as the judge and jury in
high-profile trials, so maybe Judge Larry Paul Fidler decided to skip
the speculation and just let a Dateline NBC producer sit on the jury in
Phil Spector's murder trial, which starts today. L.A.-based independent
reporter Eric Longabardi reported on his blog that Adam Gorfain, a
41-year-old senior producer who runs Dateline's Los Angeles office, will
help decide Spector's fate. Longabardi suggests that Gorfain's role as a
journalist involved in covering Spector's case prior to the trial could
make him less than impartial. "According to Gorfain's own admission,
he's been working on the Spector case for months," Longabardi writes.
"In his juror questionnaire released by the court last Friday, the
Dateline producer wrote that 'for several months, I have been assigned
to this case for NBC News as a senior producer.'"
But an NBC News insider downplays Gorfain's role in the network's
Spector coverage. "He's only been covering it in the sense that he runs
the L.A. office" and decides who's on what story, the insider says. "He
hasn't done a second of reporting on Spector or reviewed a script."
Dateline has only done one Spector story so far, the source says, and
Gorfain had nothing to do with it. He had been slated internally as the
senior producer on a Spector story that hasn't happened yet, the source
says, "but of course now he obviously isn't."
Still, at a time when jurors are regularly booted from high-profile
trials just for watching too much television coverage about a case, it's
a little odd that someone who actually produces that coverage made the
cut. "We were all astonished," says the NBC Newser.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/04/
phil-spector-trial-adam-gorfain-dateline-nbc.php#more
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NBC NEWS PRODUCER ALLOWED ON PHIL SPECTOR JURY
RADAR - The media are often accused of acting as the judge and jury in
high-profile trials, so maybe Judge Larry Paul Fidler decided to skip
the speculation and just let a Dateline NBC producer sit on the jury in
Phil Spector's murder trial, which starts today. L.A.-based independent
reporter Eric Longabardi reported on his blog that Adam Gorfain, a
41-year-old senior producer who runs Dateline's Los Angeles office, will
help decide Spector's fate. Longabardi suggests that Gorfain's role as a
journalist involved in covering Spector's case prior to the trial could
make him less than impartial. "According to Gorfain's own admission,
he's been working on the Spector case for months," Longabardi writes.
"In his juror questionnaire released by the court last Friday, the
Dateline producer wrote that 'for several months, I have been assigned
to this case for NBC News as a senior producer.'"
But an NBC News insider downplays Gorfain's role in the network's
Spector coverage. "He's only been covering it in the sense that he runs
the L.A. office" and decides who's on what story, the insider says. "He
hasn't done a second of reporting on Spector or reviewed a script."
Dateline has only done one Spector story so far, the source says, and
Gorfain had nothing to do with it. He had been slated internally as the
senior producer on a Spector story that hasn't happened yet, the source
says, "but of course now he obviously isn't."
Still, at a time when jurors are regularly booted from high-profile
trials just for watching too much television coverage about a case, it's
a little odd that someone who actually produces that coverage made the
cut. "We were all astonished," says the NBC Newser.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/04/
phil-spector-trial-adam-gorfain-dateline-nbc.php#more
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