CBS News Radio's Steven Portnoy Uses Some Old-Fashioned Tech To Get Manafort Verdict News On The Air

Portnoy (Photo: Twitter @stevenportnoy)

CBS NEWS RADIO WHITE HOUSE Correspondent STEVEN PORTNOY was able to get the news of the PAUL MANAFORT verdict on the air before TV and other outlets, and it took some old-fashioned technology and ingenuity to beat the competition.

With cameras and cell phones banned from the courthouse for the hearing, PORTNOY and other reporters raced from the courtroom to get the story out, but it was PORTNOY who won the race to the only pay phone in the building. 

PORTNOY called CBS' toll-free number and barked out the story, getting it on the air right away and claiming to be first with the verdict, in which MANAFORT, President TRUMP's former campaign manager, was found guilty on eight of eighteen counts, with the other ten resulting in mistrials.

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