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Fox Business Network’s Gasparino says Morgan Stanley threatened him

Huffington Post reports that Fox Business Network reporter Charles Gasparino believes he received a death threat from a Morgan Stanley representative on Friday.

The post states, “Earlier in the day, he published an exclusive story about how James Gorman, the CEO of Morgan Stanley, called some analysts on Thursday to tell them that despite rumors, the bank is not overexposed to troubled European banks and, in the words of Gasparino, ‘imploding.’

“A public relations representative from Morgan Stanley, apparently unhappy with the article, called Gasparnio and left him a ‘nasty’ voicemail. Thinking she’d hung up, she said I’m going to kill him one of these days,’ according to Gasparino.

“He explained more during the 3:00 p.m. EDT hour of FBN, where colleague Liz Claman had a tough time keeping a straight face (clearly, she thought Gasparino was being just a tad dramatic).

“‘Morgan Stanley is not going to silence me with death threats,’ he said as Claman chuckled. ‘I was threatened today. It was a death threat issued by one of their PR people. And they will not silence me.'”

Read more here. Julia LaRoche of Business Insider reported the “death threat” one hour earlier.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.