Anchor quits after using false ID on call-in show

Don Day November 18th, 2007

Gary Anthony Ramsay, an anchor at NY1, resigned for an act that he says was “smudging the journalist line.” The NY Times reports that Ramsay called into the network’s live call-in show with former police commissioner Bernard Kerik on the air. He assumed a false persona and asked Kerik a pointed question: “So which is the real Bernie Kerik? Is it the one who pleads not guilty before or is it the one who pleads guilty after he cuts a deal that he’s comfortable with?” The show’s host recognized his voice and called him after the show. Ramsay later quit, but says if he had been on a panel on the show, his question would have been the same.