Shapiro of Fox Business covers the big stories

Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Wednesday about Fox Business Network reporter Adam Shapiro.

Friedman writes, “Such is the lot of a TV reporter that Shapiro had to pivot and leave behind, for the time being, the nuances of the Sandy story and grasp the details of voting in Nevada and neighboring states.

“‘I had to know, what are the issues?’ In Nevada, people’s concerns focused on the troubled state of housing prices and high unemployment in the region.

“Shapiro planned to be standing at a local elementary school, which had become a voting center, by 6:30 a.m. Then it will be on to the Las Vegas Strip, where the Republican Party had set up shop in Nevada. Shapiro expects to be going pretty much full tilt until after midnight, when his boss back in New York will tell him it’s OK to pack it up and get ready to come home to New York.

“I asked Shapiro how he could pass through Las Vegas without giving into the temptation to gamble — even once. He laughed out loud for the first time in our conversation, releasing some of the pent-up stress of his two weighty reporting assignments. He thought of what he might do after he completes his work.

“‘I may hit ONE slot machine,’ he chuckled.

“That is, unless he and his trusty field producer, Elka Worner, have to race over to Colorado, either by car or plane, to report on that state’s presidential-election voting.”

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