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So the broadcast media, collectively, can probably expect to receive a dead fish in the mail at some point in the not too distant future. Because:...
December 12, 2008

So the broadcast media, collectively, can probably expect to receive a dead fish in the mail at some point in the not too distant future. Because: They. Have. Royally. Pissed. Off. Rahmbo.

“I’m getting regular death threats,” Emmanuel told an ABC cameraman. “You’ve put my home address on national television. I’m pissed at the networks. You’ve intruded too much.”

Evidence? The cameraman on the receiving end of Emmanuel’s burst of anger “was invited inside by Emmanuel to use his bathroom this morning.”

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.