{"id":3670,"date":"2008-11-20T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2008-11-20T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T11:00:33","slug":"she-has-a-bright-future-in-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3670","title":{"rendered":"She Has A Bright Future In Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intern at KSTP-TV <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=45&#038;aid=154451\">wasn&#8217;t happy about being tossed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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. &#8220;You don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;m from. I&#8217;ll mess you up, b&#8212;-,&#8221; the student allegedly told the female producer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.\u00a0 But not so much in the <em>news <\/em>end of things.<\/p>\n<p>And while Hubbard Broadcasting (KSTP-TV&#8217;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 &#8217;80s.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all in the timing, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>May I suggest sending an audition tape to Springer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intern at KSTP-TV wasn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}