Beat the Press Blute and Carr/WRKO 11.16.02 (original) (raw)

When Peter Blute and company headed back to port aboard the Nautica in the summer of 1999, a Boston Herald photographer was there to greet them, snapping an incriminating photo of a woman identified as Gidget baring her breasts to the camera.

On Friday, Boston Globe business reporter Steve Bailey closed in on the question - who shot Peter Blute? Bailey's trail leads to one man: Michael Taylor, a self-described aviation and terrorism expert with a reportedly unsavory past. Bailey says one of Taylor's investigators was also taking booze cruise photos that day and allegedly shot some videotape. The issue heated up this week when Herald columnist and Blute's fellow WRKO radio host Howie Carr told Blute the videotape might surface on the Internet.

Peter Blute challenged Howie Carr on WRKO. "The Herald has already published the photos," Blute told Carr. To which Carr responded, "I know but he has a videotape." Blute then challenged Carr to get the "him" to put that videotape on the air. That exchange got even more heated when Blute challenged Carr to report just who "him" was and who was behind the whole set-up in the first place. Blute then said to Carr, "you know and I know someone put Gidget on the boat. Why don't you look into it if you are such an investigative reporter."

Well, apparently the _Heral_d has looked into it extensively but has not printed the story for reasons that are unclear. Peter Blute believes the Herald was caught up in the sting. "Come on, Howie, you know exactly what happened there," he said on WRKO. The question is: Why won't they print it?