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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.

76 replies on “KOMO’s Marlee Ginter Might Be [a Damn Fine Journalist]”

  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!

  4. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  11. 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!

  12. 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?

  13. 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.

  23. 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.

  28. I think that the “Problem Solver” should do a report where they solve the problem of ridiculously awful journalism at that TV station.

  36. 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

  37. 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.

  39. @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.

  40. rumor has it Marlee was seen fleeing the Marginal Way DIY skatepark with a couple empty bottles of motoroil as well…..

  41. 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.

  46. 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…)

  47. 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

  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.

  49. @ 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…

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