Comments on: Kristin Stinar: Dumpster Diver

By: pooper

pooper — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:04:57 +0000

Stinar is NOT hot. Trust me. I’ve seen her up close on a very good number of occasions. She kinda looks like a catchers’ mitt these days, actually. She’s got crow’s feet and smile lines that could hold a three-day rain.

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By: Dude who hates dumb chicks

Dude who hates dumb chicks — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:39:19 +0000

I agree that corporate greed is to blame for lowering standards, but I think talent is also to blame. When you agree to do fluff crap to keep the advertisers happy, or sensational pieces that drag in the lowest common denominators, you are complicit in the act of dumbing down America. It is people like Stinar who don’t give a damn about the industry who are to blame for its demise. She is not personally responsible for the death of television journalism, but she is a perfect example of where we are going wrong.

By: mediawhore

mediawhore — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:13:02 +0000

Dude, the days of Dave Moore are over, unfortunately. Your beef is not necessarily with the reporters, but with the news directors who push for more sensational stories, and with corporate owners (Viacom, Gannett, NewsCorp, etc.) who want their stations to serve as corporate ATMs, and who manage those newsrooms from afar without a clue of what local audiences want to see and how they want it presented. That has turned a once-great news market into another sad hotbed of “if it bleeds, it leads” sensationalism.

The Stinar story was more than just digging up dildos and Crystal bottles — the “news hook” was the list of stripper/hooker names and flight times, written on Vikings notebook paper, no less. Maybe they’re playing up the sex angle too much, but that list could actually lead investigators to some of the, ahem, party guests who could give them information on who was responsible for what that night on the lake. To me, that’s worth something. Without that nugget, I’d agree that this would be little more than a trash story, no pun intended. But that list justifies the means by which it was found, and promoted by KSTP.

By: Dude who hates dumb chicks

Dude who hates dumb chicks — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:50:46 +0000

So, quality can be overlooked during sweeps? Fine. What is the excuse the other 10 months of the year?

By: bud

bud — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:20:33 +0000

Dude, loosen up - it's sweeps month!

Put on your best cardigan and go with the flow. my man!

By: Dude who hates dumb chicks

Dude who hates dumb chicks — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:06:30 +0000

My point, no matter how anyone chooses to accept it is, there was a time when reporters had ethics and concern for quality. While the horny bastards on this site think quality in broadcasts can be judged by sweater tightness, some of us think there is more to television news than a pretty face telling me things I already knew. I already knew that hookers have sex for money. I already knew that after parties garbage is thrown away. You all seem to think that Kristin Stinar is the second-coming of Walter Cronkite for her ability to get to the bottom of this story. She got to the bottom of nothing. and has never impressed me once, in her entire career here. I am truly sorry if my opinion bothers you this much.

By: bud

bud — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:52:22 +0000

If anyone wants to 'dig deeper' Bryant McKinnie has ties to some rapper who is a huge U of Florida fan, and is the 'missing link' to the southern hooker pipeline.

McKinnie is the blowhole who is behind this with Smoot.

By: bud

bud — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:39:53 +0000

Kristin has the guts to find the evidence linking the IDIOT Vikings to their IDIOTIC behavior.

She AND Anne Hutchinson can share my hot tub ANYTIME.

P.S. To KMSP: College hockey players having beers is NOT a scandal.

By: mediawhore

mediawhore — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:33:41 +0000

Dude, you don’t know shit about the world of TV news. If you’re basing your opinion of a reporter’s intelligence on one sweeps-month story, you’re pissing up a rope. It would be easy to surmise from your posts on this page that you are a mouth-breathing cretin, but I’m sure none of us are thinking that.