Jack Williams

Maybe the same person who thought it would be a good idea to have Williams and Lisa Hughes anchor the news while standing outside in the station parking lot. Williams, being a man's man, of course, just stood there without a hat. They finally got him back inside, and by the looks of things just in time - his face was bright red.

Will continue on 6 p.m. newscast.

Hanover and Prince posts video of a Channel 4 reporter in a van and some anonymous Masshole pedestrian exchanging pleasantries during a live report. Jack Williams's reaction to some on-air f-bombing is priceless.

Last night, at the end of the 11 o'clock newscast, Jack Williams answered viewer e-mail. One was from a woman who wondered why the TV crews went berserk covering that Needham murder but don't seem to show a similar amount of urgency in covering murders in inner-city Boston.

Williams, in that stentorian voice of his, said Channel 4 went into Crisis Emergency Mode because Needham schools were locked down and the station will always play up any story involving a possible public-safety issue.

So here's the lesson for Boston schools: Next time you go into lockdown because some murderer is on the loose, make sure to call Jack Williams. Remember the pizza guy who got shot in Dorchester on Thursday? Turns out
Dorchester High School was locked down after that, only nobody thought to inform Channel 4, probably because, unfortunately, they have a lot more experience in dealing with murders and lockdowns than bucolic little Needham. But I'm wondering even if they had alerted the media if it would have mattered.