CBS3 ANCHOR ALYCIA LANE allegedly punched a cop in NYC and was arrested.The blogs and newspapers are going crazy - Lane has been a regular in the gossip columns ever since she allegedly sent photos of herself in a bikini to ESPN anchor Rich Eisen.
So the arrest story is making news in Philly. But CB3 hasn't acknowledged the arrest. There has been nothing on their website, and they didn't mention her on today's newscasts.
What should they do? Do they report their own reporter getting busted? Or do they ignore the news to protect one of their own?
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It's only making news because shes a personality. CBS3 isn't saying anything to "protect" one of their own. If Renee Chenault-Fattah over at NBC 10 did the same thing, CBS would report on it and NBC would probably ignore the "news." Then again if Nancy Nobody was in the same situation, she wouldn't get any news coverage. It think you can file this under "celebrity/gossip"
So CBS3 is telling everyone to go to NBC10 to learn about the Alycia Lane arrest?
Isn't CBS3 missing out on what is sure to be a long-lasting and possibly salacious story?
Don't they have a duty to provide the citizens with information? Shouldn't their loyalty be to the cictizens and not Lane?
- George (the teacher)
If they did cover the news, could they really do it without bias? What if they don't have any anchors at the station who don't know Alycia Lane? Wouldn't it be irresponsible to have a fellow anchor cover the news?
Then again, maybe the need to inform the public of a potentially dangerous journalist overrides the inappropriate situation it poses for the newschannel.
She could be running around punching cops in the face. In her bikini.
Or maybe it was self defense the bikini thing was made up. Was it self defense?
I have to agree that the only reason this is a big deal is because she is a TV personality.
But they understand getting into that business that now they are being watched.
I think it would be better if CBS3 would just come out with the story instead of hiding, mainly because all the other stations are talking about it. It's better to come out in the open and give the real facts rather than pretend it never happened and let other people perhaps exaggerate what went on.
Because obviously everyone knows it happened. But the truth can always be stretched.
First, I don't consider Alycia Lane to be a TV personality. She's a local news reporter i.e. a journalist. Which gets me to the reason this story makes me sick. As if journalism isn't already on a downward spriral, Lanes actions don't only make her look pathetic but also tarnish the entire news agency. This is what happens when big network news hires women with absolutely nothing to offer in the field of broadcast journalism except their beauty. CBS should be completely embarrassed because of Lane.
From what I hear - and my sources are by no means reliable - she is likely gone. But I can see the station keeping her just because she is controversial. Her being IN the news will draw eyes to THEIR news.
Plus, Philly people love scrappers - Rocky, the Goretti girls, the Flyers teams of the 1970's, the 1993 Phillies, Edmond Bacon. I met a woman yesterday who sympathized with Alycia, and the woman said that if someone gave her lip, she'd pop 'em too. Pure Philly.
The lesbian assault could be the topper. But it's also something that a week of "diversity training" and public service stories could wash away.
The ultimate story here is a news anchor portraying herself as a celebrity. It's hard to say whether this will be the episode that grounds her or only serves to further inflate her ego.
- George (the teacher who is already tired of hearing about Alycia Lane)
I agree with the fact that I think the only reason she is in the news is because of the celebrity factor. At the same time, she is a journalist who is bringing bad news onto her fellow peers. I think its a little different then if she worked somewhere else where she probably wouldn't be fired. She represents reporting the news, and now she is the news. Fact. How is anyone to take her or her station seriously?
Wasn't she fired?
Yup. She was fired.
- George (the teacher)
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