Intern at KSTP-TV wasn’t happy about being tossed:
University of Minnesota student Jennifer Nicole Anato-Mensah, 21, threw a fit last month after Twin Cities station KSTP let her go. She began hurling threats at an executive producer, according to a criminal complaint, and kicked out the glass of a conference room door in an attempt to get at her. “You don’t know where I’m from. I’ll mess you up, b—-,” the student allegedly told the female producer.
The broadcasting industry, being full of deeply dysfunctional people, is full of stories of the tirades and rampages people go on when they get pink-slipped. But not so much in the news end of things.
And while Hubbard Broadcasting (KSTP-TV’s owners) has cleaned up its image a bit since I worked there (also bored us to death by hiring Willie and Jay to do mornings at KSTP-AM), I think Ms. Anato-Mensah might have had a big future in middle-management there, back in the ’80s. It’s all in the timing, I guess.
May I suggest sending an audition tape to Springer?
She was obviously channeling Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Gust Avrakotos in “Charlie Wilson’s War,” in his nonpareil office tirade, right down to kicking out the office glass:
“My loyalty! For twenty four years people have been trying to kill me! People who know how. Now do you think that’s because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker? Or do you think that’s because I’m an American spy? Go f— yourself, you f—ing child!”
The broadcasting industry, being full of deeply dysfunctional people, is full of stories of the tirades and rampages people go on when they get pink-slipped.
All industries have this to some extent. “Going postal” isn’t just a saying, after all. Even Silicon Valley isn’t immune to hiring (and firing) violent nutjobs. I remember a watching a couple of engineers at Analog Devices get into a fistfight in the hall after a design review back in the 80s.
As long as you get enough people in any group, you start getting more and more folks more than 3 standard deviations out, if you get my meaning. It’s why living in a city sucks. It’s not that any one person is more likely to be a wack job, it’s that you’re much more likely to run into those deviants given the number of folks you peripherally interact with.
Here is a story with a picture. http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81452
Mitch, is she any relation to “Pervy LeDouchebag”?
Hyphenated last name, there’s your first clue.
I googled her picture. I wasn’t surprised. And too f’ing bad if you think that’s racist.
Wow, her level of education wasn’t high enough to handle the stress of logging video tapes. I had an actual job at KSTP-TV (as opposed to an internship) in 1996, & quit because the job was so mind-numbingly dull.
KSTP does not exactly have high expectations.