I was once in the middle of an anchor dispute. Consultant-led mediation helped, but the best advice came from an older, wiser anchor who told me to keep smiling, be patient and wait for my coanchor to implode. Of course, all this was before the rise of computer hacking, spyware and keylogging devices. Who knows what kind of damage we could have done to each other — and our station — had we had access to a relatively cheap gadget that makes it easy to snoop through private e-mails? That’s what Larry Mendte is alleged to have done to his coanchor in Philadelphia.
