It is Day 3 of the Alycia Lane saga, but the alleged cop-punching, derogatory-name-calling Philly anchor (former anchor?) is still making news. Today the focus came on her apparent phone call to Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, which was confirmed during Rendell’s appearance on WIP radio.
FishbowlNY has a good run down of the soap opera that is the Lane story, complete with some juicy court docs.
The cable networks haven’t been drooling over the story as the New York City papers, but FNC’s Shepard Smith had some fun with the story yesterday (and briefly today) during Studio B and MSNBC’s Dan Abrams labeled Lane a big “loser” last night.
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Karen Heller doesn’t see the problem lying solely with Lane, but with the news business as a whole. “It’s 2007 and local television still resembles a Trumpian world with middle-aged men holding onto their duchies for life yet an ever-changing America’s Next Top Trophy Anchorwoman,” she writes. “Alycia Lane has big problems. But the bigger one is why businesses keep hiring women because they’re car-crackup beautiful instead of being smart and imbued with common sense.” Ouch.