New York City Tabloid Warrior’s Job Prospects Are Murderous
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Eeep! A news alert lands in his smartphone: possible double homicide in Times Square. New York Daily News reporter Kerry Burke is a half-hour away, perched atop a 250-foot cliff as an inferno swallows the New Jersey apartment building where Yankees announcer John Sterling lives.
“I’m in New Jersey!” Burke hollers into the sky, as if the breaking-news gods will send help. The veteran reporter has mastered murder and mayhem but not yet the art of being in two places at the same time. “This is not right,” he says.