Or she might be preparing a followup to her shoddy, sensationalistic, sex- and fact-phobic hit piece on the Center for Sex Positive Culture. A reader forward this email exchange...
From: Billy Vacation
Sent: Tue 11/18/2008 10:03 PM
To: Ginter, Marlee <mginter@komotv.com>
Subject: You should lose your job.Ms. Ginter,
You are a horrible, unethical journalist. You should be ashamed of yourself for the despicable lies that you are trying to pass off as news. Most people in Seattle just think you are stupid, now you have lost all credibility. I really hope you get fired and sued for your piece on the Center for Sex Positive Culture.
Sincerely,
Billy Vacation
Ginter wrote Billy V. right back...
"Ginter, Marlee" <mginter@komotv.com> wrote:
Thank you so much for responding! This story has gotten wonderful response so much so it would be great to get some of the writers to speak further about this. I'm assuming you're a member of the club as you're clearly interested in writing about it.
I'd love to talk further with you for a possible follow up!
Thanks!
Marlee Ginter
KOMO 4 News Reporter
Billy Vacation isn't a member of the Center—nor am I, for that matter—and he isn't interested in meeting with Ginter. He doesn't trust Ginter not to misrepresent him or twist his words the same way she twisted those of author Brian Alexander. (Alexander was interviewed at KOMO a year ago when his book, America Unzipped, was published. In that original interview, Alexander spoke favorably of his visit to the Center, and backed its education mission. Ginter removed Alexander's words from their original context, tossed in some ominous sound cues, and made Alexander look like he was crusading against the Center. Alexander wrote to Ginter demanding an apology. Ginter hasn't responded to Alexander.) If anyone else has written to Ginter and received a response, please forward your exchange to me.
Finally, I don't have any proof that Marlee Ginter [a damn fine journalist]. But she might be [a damn fine journalist], just as Dan Lewis's hard-earned money "might be going" to the Center for Sex Positive Culture. Anything that might or could be happening, according to KOMO, even things that seem unlikely to be happening (Marlee Ginter [being a damn fine journalist]) or are actually not happening (the Center for Sex Positive Culture taking your tax dollars, Marlee Ginter and KOMO issuing a correction and apologizing for this piece), are "facts" fit for broadcast. So... is Marlee Ginter [a damn fine journalist]? She might be. She could be. So let's just say that she is—why the hell not?
Marlee Ginter: [damn fine journalist]. Now I'm off to get some shocked quotes from misinformed passersby. Film at 11.
