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Fox Business reporter climbs broadcast tower

Darren Botelho

A Fox Business reporter said he was “definitely having an out-of-body experience” after climbing a nearly 2,000-foot broadcast tower with FCC Chair Brendan Carr on Thursday, reports Tom Durante of Mediaite

Durante reports, “Fox Business reporter Darren Botelho climbed the North Carolina tower with Carr in an exclusive report broadcast on Fox News on Thursday.

“‘OK, you guys are crazy,’ America’s Newsroom co-host Dana Perino remarked to Botelho before asking, ‘Why are you doing this?’

“‘Because we’re crazy, you just answered that,’ Botelho said.

“He added: ‘I think we’re both having an out-of-body experience right now.’

“For reference, Botelho explained that he and Carr were perched about as high as if the Empire State Building and the Washington Monument were stacked on top of each other.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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