A reader sends this report of another enemy of reporter Anita Busch getting nasty:

I don't doubt that Anita Busch was menaced by the baddies, but she has a strange history that seems to include heavy bouts of paranoia. When she was at Variety there were always stories of intrigue. An uberagent evidently sent her a bottle of MSG as a vendetta (she's supposedly allergic to the common additive to Chinese food)... Her life is going to make a great film some day.

And an anonymous source in Luke Ford's profile of Busch seems to confirm the paranoia angle: "While Anita was at The Hollywood Reporter, she thought the window washers were spies for Variety."