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St. Louis news station reports on the Kurt Greenbaum affair

November 20th, 2009 · 15 Comments

By Carlos Miller
A St. Louis news station is the first mainstream media company to report on the Kurt Greenbaum affair.

The station, 4KMOV, did a good job on the story, interviewing Post-Dispatch deputy editor Bob Rose, who is supporting Greenbaum.

They also said it was unlikely that Greenbaum will resign.

And they linked to one of my Greenbaum posts, which is always a good thing.

Oh yeah, they’ve also turned off comments for this particular story.

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15 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Carlos Miller // Nov 20, 2009 at 10:16 PM

    Can you guys see the video in the post?

    I embedded it but it doesn’t appear on my screen.

  • 2 bj // Nov 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM

    I can not.

  • 3 Carlos Miller // Nov 20, 2009 at 10:48 PM

    I don’t know what to do. I embedded it like I do all the other videos. I’ve tried several different times but it still doesn’t show up.

    It’s probably something with the coding, which I have no clue about.

    But I linked to it, so people can still see it.

  • 4 bj // Nov 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM

    I cant embed it either.

  • 5 Carlos Miller // Nov 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM

    I guess somebody greenbaumed-out at the station.

  • 6 Michaelk42 // Nov 21, 2009 at 12:09 AM

    So… Bob Rose isn’t sure about racist postings, that’s a grey area, oh but profanity is always bad.

    There’s something wrong with these people.

  • 7 Spokker // Nov 21, 2009 at 12:19 AM

    I look at that asshole’s smug profile photo on his worthless blog and I wonder, do all of his co-workers hate him or just most of them?

    Does he go home at night and fuck his wife or husband and tell them, “UNGH, I GOT A GUY FIRED TODAY. UNGH. TAKE IT BITCH. IM A VERY POWERFUL MAN. TAKE MY POWERFUL CAREER ENDING ROD.”

  • 8 Simon Jester // Nov 21, 2009 at 1:00 AM

    Heh… Marc Cox..

  • 9 Hazy // Nov 21, 2009 at 1:36 AM

    I hope the guy comes forward, he should not be afraid to tell the truth. What he did was not a big deal, he should be suing this newspaper and getting his story out there instead of hiding.

  • 10 Jake // Nov 21, 2009 at 2:06 AM

    Bob Rose, that’s the guy I talked to on the phone (re: my earlier posting on the grennbaum/resign post)!

    Yeah, he wasn’t very conciliatory and I got the impression they think this is much ado about nothing.

  • 11 Jake // Nov 21, 2009 at 2:14 AM

    Just watched the video on the KMOV site.

    Paraphrasing Bob Rose: Racism OK. Profanity? Absolutely not. Not on my watch.

    Wait, what?

  • 12 Hazy // Nov 21, 2009 at 1:30 PM

    STLtoday seems like some podunk newspaper. I thought Saint Louis metro area had like 3 million people, how could such a low quality newspaper be serving such a large number of people?

  • 13 FootInMouthDisease // Nov 21, 2009 at 2:45 PM

    “Oh yeah, they’ve also turned off comments for this particular story.”

    They (The Post-Dispatch) also turned off the comments on Greenbaum’s last article, and I was the reason why.

    Was I vulgar? Was I threatening? Nope. I offered the man a solution.

    I simply suggested that he find the man, apologize, then do whatever he could to help the guy get his job back. My reasoning?

    I said in my post that people had committed suicide over far less important things then losing a job and that Greenbaum really didn’t want the man’s blood on his hands.

    I also suggested that he did not need any permission from anyone, his boss, his lawyer, nobody, to do so.

    My post went up and less then 5 mins. later it was deleted and the comments section locked. It was the last post to make up.

    I guess my suggesting he didn’t need to consult his boss is what got the post deleted. I don’t think Greenbaum is even in the loop anymore. It is all Mr. Rose at this point.

    So, now they are deleting posts simply because somebody doesn’t agree with them.

    I was VERY careful to word my post so as not to offend–and it still gets deleted. And the comments section locked after more then 400 posts. Did I hit a nerve Mr. Rose?

  • 14 Doug // Nov 21, 2009 at 2:58 PM

    I agree, it’s a real podunk newspaper. Apparently the holding company is bleeding cash and firing staff left, right and centre. Guess you can see why when you know the rubbish they put out and their “journalistic” standards. Maybe they’re worried that firing Greenbaum may be seen as an admission of guilt and their lawyers have told them not to. Great policy guys. Instead of doing the right thing, trying to get a job back for the guy who was fired and avoiding a massive lawsuit (there must be hundreds of lawyers out there who’d take this on contingency) they’ll dig their heels in and destroy the long-term viability of their business. Not surprising they’re losing money. Who’d invest anything in this bunch of clowns?

  • 15 mepsipax // Nov 23, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    You can almost watch the death of old media.

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