Updated 03/12/2008 10:41 AM
Spitzer scandal creates media circus
NEW YORK STATE -- Do you think the Governor should resign? It's the question all us media types are asking.
It's the story across the nation and even the world -- Governor Eliot Spitzer and the investigation into his dealings with a prostitute -- and if it seems like there are more of us here, you'd be right.
One count has over three dozen different news trucks with their satellite dishes beaming news to all over from the front lawn of the Capitol.
“I came down here to experience a very unique event,” one person said.
“This is breaking news right in our backyard. So we had to come down,” said another person.
“When we came down we didn't know what to expect. Obviously there's news everywhere,” said Thomas Passasaro.
Big city papers like the Washington Post and the Miami Herald lead with the Spitzer story. Small town dailies like the Hearld-Journal in Logan, Utah and the Allentown Morning Call put New York's governor above the fold. The Spanish-langauge newspaper Hoy ran a full page picture of Spitzer with the headline “Illegal” In Toronto's Globe and Mail and London's Daily Telegraph it was front page news.
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It was all the talk of talk radio here in Albany, on WROW AM 590 and TALK 1300.
For New Yorkers, all these reporters covering the story of Spitzer was not surprising.
“It should be a huge story. He should do the right thing and step down. The longer he stays in power, it's going to be worse,” said Colonie resident Miguel Berger.
“I think it would be very big. Because when he came in, it was ethics and family, everything matter. He's got a real nice wife and three daughters I feel real bad for them,” said Wendy Hoffman.
And if you happen to be in Albany, we'll see you there.
In the local papers, the Troy Record, the headline read “Spitz on the Skids.” The TU lead with “Prostitution Sting puts Spitzer's Future at Risk.” But the one that is was most fitting was “Spitzer Facing Crisis.”
It’s not just a crisis in Albany, but a crisis as well inside his own family.