The Underground Conservative

A University of Minnesota student goes on a rampage after her paid internship is terminated at a Twin Cities TV station.

Jennifer Nicole Anato-Mensah, 21, a University of Minnesota student, started working part-time in early September in a paid internship for KSTP-TV, the ABC affiliate in St. Paul. She was responsible for logging and organizing videotapes for newscasts.

But on Oct. 13, things reportedly went bad. Very bad.

“This is a young girl who was not understanding concepts in a television newsroom,” Danielle Prenevost, 33, executive producer of the station’s early evening newscasts, told the Pioneer Press. “I said, ‘I don’t think your level of college experience is enough for this job.’”

At that point, Prenevost said, Anato-Mensah “just lost it.”

Oh the humanity and all the passengers!

Some of the comments from the website of the St. Paul Pioneer press’s website are insightful:

• Welcome the new generation to the workplace! We can look forward a great deal more of this sort of behavior. There is a word, which begins with the letter “e” which accurately describes them. It’s not “excellent.” It’s not “exceptional.” Try “ENTITLED.” And if they do not get their way, look out!
• I’m sure the attorneys are already lined up at her door to file the discrimination lawsuit against KSTP. Even though the station has countless witnesses to her inappropriate criminal behavior, I’m sure they’ll settle out of court, much to the delight of “Miss way too many names” and her attorneys. Which is what this was all about to begin with.
• Her parents must be so proud. Oh, but wait, this is the age where you tell your children they never do anything wrong, so is anyone surprised that this happened? Maybe if her parents had guts she wouldn’t be such an idiot.

Priceless. We spend years telling children how wonderful, unique and special they are, giving them gold stars and smiley faces on mediocre or worse work, telling them they have all sorts of rights, that the world owes them something, and never telling them “No!” and we’re surprised when this happens?

I believe The Blogfather has it right when he points out that the intersection of inflated self-esteem meeting reality produces the cry of “It’s not fair!”

Unfortunately, with the culture of unrealistic self-esteem without any shred of accomplishment that our gummint-run skoolzs have become, expect more of these meltdowns.