A situation between reporters at the California statehouse and a homeless man led to 790 KABC host John Phillips sharing how he views remote broadcasts Wednesday.
During The John Phillips Show, a report about a homeless man throwing apples at news reporters in Sacramento made the rounds, and Phillips said he’s always weary about where he is in relation to the public while broadcasting from the road.
“One of the things that happens with your broadcast here is every so often, they want you to broadcast from outside the studio,” said Phillips. “Broadcast at a sporting event you broadcast at the location of an advertiser you broadcast at some big event that’s going on. I stay in my lane. I don’t try to tell people in other departments what to do, I don’t get involved in their business, because it’s none of my business… You don’t have to be one of these people that wears a million different hats. There are people who are micromanagers I am not one of them.
“However, one of the things I always make sure to inquire about when we’re doing the live shot, is where are we going to be sitting and what’s going to be behind me? Because I never want to have my back to the public. You have your back to the public. You can’t see what’s going on. And sometimes people like you, and sometimes people don’t like you. And sometimes they really don’t like you and sometimes they like you way too much. In any of those cases, you don’t want your back to them. You want to be able to see what’s going on at all times.”
