You might remember former Alycia Lane. She's the former anchor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia who was...ahem...exposed to have sent (apparently unwanted) revealing pictures of herself in a bikini to NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen - which were intercepted by his wife, ABC sideline reporter Suzy Shuster. I use the term "former" since she was fired last December after getting into a punch-up with an off-duty cop in New York.
She's back in the news, but this time it appears that she's the victim rather than the protagonist. At the time the "bikini photos" story broke, no one really knew who leaked the story. Same goes for the details of her arrest. Turns out that it was none other than her co-anchor Larry Mendte, trying to ruin her career after become enraged and jealous that she was making more money than him and becoming a bigger local star. So he hacked into her e-mail account well over 500 times in a five month span and fed the information to a local reporter.
At this point, I'm half-expecting to find out that he Photoshopped some pictures and sent them around to the local media to prove that Lane was a smelly, pirate hooker. Of course, I'm not sure that Mendte has the common sense to correctly use Photoshop, based on how he was caught - another worker found her Yahoo e-mail account open one day at a work computer, despite the fact that she had been fired six weeks earlier. All of which triggered an investigation that eventually got the FBI involved.
But here's the question I have out of all of this: who the hell is running the HR department at KYW-TV? Apparently having a complete lack of morals, shame or interest in others is not a problem for working your way up the Philadelphia TV news field. All you need to do is be able to show up for work a couple of hours a day, lie through your teeth, and put up with living in Philadelphia in order to make the big bucks, even if you have to screw a lot of people over in the process.
All of which explains why Elton Brand is a such a good fit in Philadelphia. (I'll be here all night, folks!) I don't know who they've hired to replace these two anchors, but I'd start checking the coffee mugs and silverware in the commissary for cyanide.
