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The Associated Press as well as our friends at the Riverfront Times and STLMedia are all reporting that St. Louis’ newest media entrant, the Globe Democrat, is losing their sports staff. “Why?” You ask, tilting your head slightly to the right like a little puppy. Well dear reader, when you don’t pay your employees, they tend to hate your guts and then usually choose to stop working for you. Sports editor Rob Rains announced Tuesday the entire sports staff of Globe-Democrat. [Read More]

First Deanne Lane, then Cordell Whitlock, who’s next to leave local NBC affiliate KSDK? Apparently it could be anyone because our source says they are all pretty pissed: ****…morale is way down there because of forced pay cuts everyone had to take last year. That’s why you’ve seen several resignations there in the last year and you’ll likely see a few more. This recent reports matches what much of what me and others have heard for a while now: No one is happy there. [Read More]

STLMedia is reporting that from a source that says:

A reliable source says he turned in his resignation today.

My first thought was “Wow, takes stones to quit a job in news these days.”  my second question was “Who the hell is Cordell Whitlock?”

Oh yeah.