Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Media / Sex KOMO's Marlee Ginter Might Be [a Damn Fine Journalist]
Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:30 PM
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.
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I'm shocked—SHOCKED—that Marlee Ginter might be sucking off goats.
But then again, it's really not that surprising.
But then again, it's really not that surprising.
2
This is the kind of stuff that gets me through my horrid days at work. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Slog.
3
I always suspected that Marlee Ginter might be a goat-sucker. You know the type, simpering, vacuous-eyed. But to have it come out is still shocking! I expect a multi-part investigation!
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she definitely, maybe, certainly, possibly, could be sucking off goats. it's completely, totally, potentially a possibility. out of the question, in a suggestive way.
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How can we just stand by while this is going on in our community? I heard that one of these goats is HER OWN FATHER!
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From now on, sex with goats should simply be referred to as "Gitnering," since everyone knows she might be having sex with goats right now.
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Is this the fourth day on this scandal? Sure, KOMO should issue a retraction, probably even an apology, but this is a tempest in a teapot if I've ever seen one.
That being said, @5 made me lol.
That being said, @5 made me lol.
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I am a goat, and Marlee sucked me off at a "local sex club" called the Mormon church. And she swallowed my goat load, and wiped her cummy mouth off with some blond dude's magic undies. It was hot!
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Marlee has yet to respond to my polite email asking her to apologize and rescind her piece. Perhaps if I sent her an email taking her piece out of context to imply that she is in fact sucking goats, she would respond?
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They aired the segment on Monday night at 11. It's Wednesday—not even 48 hours later.
We have not yet begun to plumb the depths of Marlee Ginter and Goatblowgate.
We have not yet begun to plumb the depths of Marlee Ginter and Goatblowgate.
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Is this goat blowing consensual? She doesn't do it with the cute pygmy goats at the Woodland Park Zoo, does she?
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goat spooge, the new nouvelle cuisine. Heirloom yellow beets over a bed of arugula, top with a fresh goat spooge...
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Her email response was the most canned I've ever seen. But I'm guessing she doesn't have time to respond to all of them personally... I heard some rumor that she's sucking goats or something? Is this true?
24
She must have been very busy Gintering her way through a herd, because I've not gotten a response to my e-mail.
Keep it up, Dan. I need the laughs.
Keep it up, Dan. I need the laughs.
25
I'm enraged that Marlee is using our tax money in the form of federal farm subsidies to felate goats!
28
I think that the "Problem Solver" should do a report where they solve the problem of ridiculously awful journalism at that TV station.
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My response was short but sweet: "Thank you for stating your case even if hastily done! Have a great week!"
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We should "Get Jesse" to investigate this Goat Sucker claim...maybe we can involve one of those tools at Q13 Fox too...
33
Isn't anyone else concerned that Marlee Ginter and Dan Lewis might have embezzled millions from KOMO to fund the 9/11 attacks?
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Also, I hope Marlee Ginter never has to look for a new job:
http://www.google.com/search?q=marlee+gi…
http://www.google.com/search?q=marlee+gi…
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Awe-some....it's a tope 3 google hit. Let's keep linking her name with terrorism too.
Q: What happens when our journalism schools focus on performance instead of actual journalism techniques?
A: Marlee Ginter
Q: What happens when our journalism schools focus on performance instead of actual journalism techniques?
A: Marlee Ginter
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Maybe I should have accepted her invitation to do an interview. It would have to be over the phone, though. I don't want to smell her goat cum breath.
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@35 - I hit that link and laughed so hard I had tears coming out of my eyes. As posted above, I would not want to be on Dan Savage's bad side.
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rumor has it Marlee was seen fleeing the Marginal Way DIY skatepark with a couple empty bottles of motoroil as well.....
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I was trying to think of what could be done to Marlee that would be the equivalent of mailing sex toys to that reporter in the south that Dan hated so. The best I can come up with would be to put her on the mailing list of every sex club in America. Which is not a bad idea, I think, but I’m sure other Sloggers can come up with better suggestions.
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That woman has no shame. I heard they caught her in the pen at the Woodland Park Zoo with the Japanese Serow!
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I think the proper, contemporary, t.v.-journalistic wording is: It is unclear if she is sucking off goats. (Old school wording: We don't know...)
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Under the "Multiple Universes" model, both possibilities must be occurring. She may not be deepthroating goats here, but she most certainly is elsewhere.
sincerely,
diggum
sincerely,
diggum
48
You guys are a bunch of retards. Some idiot writes a stupid blog on the internet and you all blindly follow along with this stupid crap.
Sounds like she hit a nerve with this story. I hope she keeps digging. I'm looking forward to finding out what these people are hoping to hide.
Sounds like she hit a nerve with this story. I hope she keeps digging. I'm looking forward to finding out what these people are hoping to hide.
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@ 48 - it's easy to find out what they're hoping to hide pencil dick - pay your membership and join the club. It's open to pretty much anybody over the age of consent. I expect that the "problem solvers" expose gave you your first woody in years...
50
you know, i don't have a goat, but my dog has been really depressed lately. do you all think marlee would try a new species?
52
I might have asked Ginter if this story is true and she might have bleated the answer N-n-n-nohohohohoho
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Do not be alarmed. But I wonder if, in addition to possibly sucking goats off, Marlee maybe might be letting goats put their goat-things in her poop-hole.
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It is interesting that Ms. Gitner has not denied the reports. If it is not true, why does she refuse to say so? Just what is her history with animals? What is she trying to hide by avoiding these simple questions? Does she still perform sexual acts on animals? If she no, when did she stop and why? As Colbert might ask, "goat ejaculate - spit or swallow?"
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The slog and everyone who has posted to it has made an excellent point that only someone in the news business would figure out: the story has people WATCHING and TALKING days later. KOMO wins! Ginter may or may not like goats - I can't say with certainty - but this week she was the sheep dog herding you all in the direction SHE wanted you to go. Enjoy.
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I know hacking Wikipedia is so two-years-ago, but Ms. Ginter *might* blow goats, and that's got to be stated! So I stated it! IT MIGHT BE TRUE!
Slog's response to this has been quite perfect.
Slog's response to this has been quite perfect.
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I am a goat and Marlee Ginter sucked me off. All the way down to the balls. Including the balls, both at once, inside her throat. And then stuck out her tongue and asslicked me. Then she wanted a kiss, but I said no.
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@50. I know her to be quite the speciesist, so I'd say no, she'd be all stuck up about your dog, and then laugh and say, "It's my preference."
@55. It is, indeed, a slippery slope, isn't it?
@55. It is, indeed, a slippery slope, isn't it?
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Using the word "might" will not save Dan. It is obvious that this is a malicious attack, not satire. He wants to cause her harm. He wants her to lose her job. He wants her to be harassed. He wants her family to suffer because of his harassment. Anyone who reads this site can tell that this is not satire. If it were satire he would have stopped when people began to threaten her and her family. Instead it only geared him up to do more harm.
To claim that is is simply an adolescent frat-boy wannabe giggle fest would be inaccurate. This is Dan Savage's malicious attempt to cause harm to someone. Was he named in the story? Was he directly provoked? Has this reporter maliciously tried to ruin his reputation because of his writings? I hope she hires a lawyer, this will be an easy victory.
To claim that is is simply an adolescent frat-boy wannabe giggle fest would be inaccurate. This is Dan Savage's malicious attempt to cause harm to someone. Was he named in the story? Was he directly provoked? Has this reporter maliciously tried to ruin his reputation because of his writings? I hope she hires a lawyer, this will be an easy victory.
66
Actually this rumor is 100% true. I've actually seen Marlee Ginter suck off goats*.
* In my fantasies.
* In my fantasies.
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Dear #65;
I would indeed like to see Ms. Ginter lose her job. Not because anyone is likely to believe that she fellates goats (or performs additional related sex acts on them, or any other farm animal).
She should be fired because she is entirely blind to the very real distinction between pumping up interest in a story by using "teaser" tactics...and misleading the public by misquoting sources and misrepresenting (or just plain making up) allegations of illegal and unethical behavior.
This isn't a giggle-fest. It's a dead-serious act of journalistic mimicry, turning Ms. Ginter's illogical arguments and unethical reportage back at her. If she wants to do an expose--on sex-positive groups, or the Accountants of America--she actually needs to come up with some credible facts BEFORE she goes on the air.
I would indeed like to see Ms. Ginter lose her job. Not because anyone is likely to believe that she fellates goats (or performs additional related sex acts on them, or any other farm animal).
She should be fired because she is entirely blind to the very real distinction between pumping up interest in a story by using "teaser" tactics...and misleading the public by misquoting sources and misrepresenting (or just plain making up) allegations of illegal and unethical behavior.
This isn't a giggle-fest. It's a dead-serious act of journalistic mimicry, turning Ms. Ginter's illogical arguments and unethical reportage back at her. If she wants to do an expose--on sex-positive groups, or the Accountants of America--she actually needs to come up with some credible facts BEFORE she goes on the air.
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What a bunch of hypocrites YOU ALL are. While I may not agree with all the hype and sensationalism of today's media, you guys blasting her by name calling isn't exactly very respectable or even mature example of an alternative. As far as I am concerned, this publication's title is appropriate.
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I don't see anyone mentioning that if Ginter has a case for a lawsuit against Dan, then the CSPC sure as hell has a case against Ginter!
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i like that she is assuming that he is a member of the club based on a three sentence venom ridden email from a critic. nice "investigation", ginter!
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@65 sorry for going through approved channels to demand some truth in reporting! should have known that it's ok for tv journalists to deliberately misinform the public while maligning a do-gooder community organization!
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The sex driven culture of our country has washed your brains so thoroughly that you missed the point of Ms. Ginter's report. Her report was targeting the fact that Center for Sex Positive Culture is a private club, which generates $300,000 annually and only claims a $12,000 profit, is tax exempt. Why should this "brothel in disguise" not be investigated Mr. Savage?
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