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Another chapter of Life in the Fast Lane
Let’s get to the important news first today. That’s right, it’s time for an Alycia Lane update.
It looks like the former Channel 3 anchor is off the hook for her much-publicized run-in with the gendarmes in the Big Apple back before Christmas.
A contrite Lane appeared in a New York City courtroom Monday and entered into a special program in which the charges filed against her will be dismissed – if she manages to steer clear of trouble for the next six months.
Of course, that has not always been a lock in Lane’s case. Her career in Philadelphia was accompanied by somewhat frequent visits to the gossip columns.
“I just want to say I’m so glad this is over,” Lane said yesterday as she left court surrounded by family, her lawyer and her new pal, Philly radio D.J. Chris Booker.
That makes two of us.
I always thought all the commotion surrounding Lane was a little bit silly. But it speaks to the celebrity status in which we hold those who bring the news into our homes every night on TV.
Trust me, the same does not hold true for newspapers. They also make a little more than we do for the most part. Which I am not exactly sure does not figure into the way they are treated in print when they run afoul of the law.
The truth is I think Lane probably got a bum deal in the way this thing played out. She steadfastly denied the charges, that she dropped a sexual slur on a female officer and then got physical with her after a street confrontation. Her denials never got the play that the charges did.
Our own TV columnist found his musings blasted all over another media outlet in Philly after he suggested that maybe things were not exactly as they had been portrayed by the New York cops, and that there was something of a rush to judgment against Lane.
Then again, all she has to do now is keep her nose clean and she’s off the hook.
The bottom line is that she has paid a heavy price already for getting out of that car, something by the way she never should have done.
It cost her a $700,000 gig as a local TV news anchor. She is mulling a wrongful termination suit against the station.
Here’s hoping she doesn’t go ahead with it. Here’s hoping she simply tries to put her life and career back together after this latest trip into the “fast Lane.”
My guess is that’s not the way this will play out. In fact, I would venture we have not heard the last from Lane.
As they say in the business, stay tuned.
It looks like the former Channel 3 anchor is off the hook for her much-publicized run-in with the gendarmes in the Big Apple back before Christmas.
A contrite Lane appeared in a New York City courtroom Monday and entered into a special program in which the charges filed against her will be dismissed – if she manages to steer clear of trouble for the next six months.
Of course, that has not always been a lock in Lane’s case. Her career in Philadelphia was accompanied by somewhat frequent visits to the gossip columns.
“I just want to say I’m so glad this is over,” Lane said yesterday as she left court surrounded by family, her lawyer and her new pal, Philly radio D.J. Chris Booker.
That makes two of us.
I always thought all the commotion surrounding Lane was a little bit silly. But it speaks to the celebrity status in which we hold those who bring the news into our homes every night on TV.
Trust me, the same does not hold true for newspapers. They also make a little more than we do for the most part. Which I am not exactly sure does not figure into the way they are treated in print when they run afoul of the law.
The truth is I think Lane probably got a bum deal in the way this thing played out. She steadfastly denied the charges, that she dropped a sexual slur on a female officer and then got physical with her after a street confrontation. Her denials never got the play that the charges did.
Our own TV columnist found his musings blasted all over another media outlet in Philly after he suggested that maybe things were not exactly as they had been portrayed by the New York cops, and that there was something of a rush to judgment against Lane.
Then again, all she has to do now is keep her nose clean and she’s off the hook.
The bottom line is that she has paid a heavy price already for getting out of that car, something by the way she never should have done.
It cost her a $700,000 gig as a local TV news anchor. She is mulling a wrongful termination suit against the station.
Here’s hoping she doesn’t go ahead with it. Here’s hoping she simply tries to put her life and career back together after this latest trip into the “fast Lane.”
My guess is that’s not the way this will play out. In fact, I would venture we have not heard the last from Lane.
As they say in the business, stay tuned.
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