take the camera along as he chased after people, climbed rooftops, crawled through windows, ambushed reluctant interviewees, dodged bullets, and whatever else was necessary to get the story and to make it look good on television. He won a number of Emmys and one Peabody Award during this time: "Up from the streets himself, he covered the streets with an instinctive aplomb. Like an emotional howitzer, he trampled the hallowed rules of objective coolness."
Geraldo himself has written about his time with WABC that it was an important experience and that he saw it as the future of television, while the network, to which he gravitated next as the natural progression for a journalist, was the past: "At Channel 7, we were happening, the news team was the most creative thing in television. At the network, they were trying to look like the other guys, at CBS and NBC, and they were failing at it. They were small and shriveled, we were sexy and thriving." Among the important stories for which he was responsible at this time was
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