His mugshot looks like my student ID.

Shouldn’t Russ Martin have been busted several years ago for impersonating someone with talent?

#1- Is the orange stripe ensemble part of his jail uniform, or is this part of his “activewear” collection?

DA, puh-leeze! Don’t be so mid-century, Edgar Rice Murrows! As long as we get as many blog entries denouncing Russ as we do of those supporting him, what he was arrested for is irrelevant, not to mention being a little bit rude, IMHO.

Dear DA,

Here’s how the FOI would work:

1. Submit request
2. Po-po sits on it for 10 working days
3. Then they send it to the attorney general asking for ruling on whether they have to release it, citing information that is critical to their investigation that should remain confidential
4. AG agrees and it is not released, or
5. AG says to release it, and we get it so long after our request that it isn’t newsworthy anymore.

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So what tool on his BatBelt did Russ Martin use? Maybe the Bat-a-rang? The Bat-bola? The Goo-Gun?

I must be missing something here. This radio jock beats his wife and you guys think it is cool and funny? If he would have killed her, would you find that hysterical?
Isn’t this taking the good ole boy syndrome a bit too far. It is interesting on this blog who is innocent until proven guilty and who is guilty right off the bat. If the journalist at D Magazine don’t know how to obtain a police report that is public record, then someone must be covering up for their pal. Either that or they have never dealt with the Po-Po before.

Quick primer, folks:

This is a blog. Blogs opine, they comment on the news, link to fun/relevant/superficial/important/inane items, and sometimes post pictures from Tim’s son’s swim meet.

Our day job is to put out a monthly magazine. We pull police reports for the stories that we work on that require them. In fact, I have a lawsuit sitting in front of me about one such story we recently published. We pulled a lot of police reports for that. Because we wrote about it. In the magazine. Which is our job.

Some blogs may see their mission as something similar to that of a daily newspaper, chasing all relevant news, and committing resources to do that. We, however, are, as it says in the top right-hand corner of your screen, “a daily conversation about Dallas among the editors of D Magazine.”

You may continue.

Snap!

Russ isn’t married. He has a girlfriend that an Observer blog made reference to being the victim, but no other media has made mention of that. Everything I’ve read from various sources(Radio-Info.com forums) has said the assault took place out in public as well as his subsequent arrest. But you can’t trust anything on the interwebs so no one will know what happened until we get official statements. Even if you don’t like Russ or his show, do him the decency of considering him innocent until proven guilty.

Thumbelina Low, could your posts contain any more baseless assumptions and presumptions?

Thumbelina,

We’re not saying that negative things can’t be said about Russ Martin. We’re just saying there should, you know, be some proof.

I don’t know the guy. But as a journalist, I’m a little surprised that the Observer posted an unsubstantiated rumor on the fly like that. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that while the Star Telegram, TDMN, et al probably had access to the same “insider” rumor, they opted not to print it because there was no proof.

Or it could be related to this last bit from the DMN? Now don’t freak out Bethany. I’m am saying that some ****** out there, not me, might think the refusal of the police to comment could have something to do with this.
Not me though. I love Russ Martin and he has the right to harm whoever he wants.

He runs the Russ Martin Show Listeners’ Foundation, which aids the families of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty, according to the show’s Web site

Or it could just be that they’re still trying to sort this stuff out. If this is indeed a domestic dispute, there is always the possibility that the person pressing the charges will drop them - it happens more frequently than I care to think about.

I’m not saying that you’re wrong. I’m just saying that the rationale behind the TDMN, Star Telegram and virtually every other news organization in the area reporting it identically is not as nefarious as you think.

The charge against Mr. Martin is “aggravated assault with bodily injuries with a deadly weapon”. Are you saying that if the victim drops the charges (i.e. payoff) then no crime was ever committed?
Far be if from me or anyone to suggest that the press might be “nefarious”.

Trey
Our Lord Jesus Christ had nothing to do with this. He doesn’t condone violence and he loves you.

New details from WFAA. Thumbelina might have been right about the domestic violence but that doesn’t mean she had the right to condone Russ Martin before she had all the details.
Since you appear to be religious do you not recall “He who is without sin, cast the first stone?”
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The thing is, as a reporter, come deadline, you’re kind of in a pickle when it comes to things like this.

Sure, you may have a source that tells you, “Russ Martin pulled a gun on his girlfriend and got arrested.” You may even have the sketchiest deets from a police incident report, or the bare bones paperwork from when he bonded out.

But the only things you can go on are what you can confirm. Unless that source was there and saw it, it’s not really a source. Knowing most newspapers’ stance on unnamed sources, it’s also a last resort, and usually used if you can find other paperwork to corroborate what that source is saying.

And that’s generally saved for a big investigative piece, not a 2nd degree felony that may or may not stick, and that a good half dozen hundred other people are sitting in Lew Sterrett for right now.

IMO, Richie Whitt didn’t do any of his fellow reporters any favors by throwing up what was at that time a rumor and then leaving town. Sure, it’s a blog. But a journalist is a journalist, and the same litmus of sourcing should apply when it comes to things that could get you in a libel suit.

According to the stories, Martin “was served with an arrest warrant for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing bodily injury.”

Can these words mean something other than pistol whipping? For example, if I show you my gun and then punch you with my fist, am I also committing “aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing bodily injury”, or is it “with a deadly weapon causing bodily injury” only if I cause the bodily injury with the gun, not just with my hand?

Oh Oh Snap Snap

Lauren probably did it, she called the popo. Hopefully Judge Coffee will take care of business

I only listen to Sirius in the car and then it is usually Stern. Did Russ Martin at one time have a partner that he did radio with?

Regardless, Mr. Martin should hire Bethany
Cochran to represent him because she has the ability to determine fact from fiction.
If the gun doesn’t blow, then let Russ Martin go. Don’t these things usually just add to the ratings and help get them a raise.
I don’t remember Russ Martin being so buff. He must be working out a lot.

I never said he never did or didn’t do it. I merely explained why the majority of the local news outlets reported it one way versus another.

As someone who has sat on a board of a family violence organization and someone who has had to cover an awful lot of the more tragic outcomes, I’d hardly be OK with someone committing violence against a family member.

Pookiepants,
At the time of our initial conversation, there was no concrete information as to what happened.

As I said before, I would never condone domestic violence. Why don’t you scroll up and read what I posted previously? I never once defended Mr. Martin. I defended the coverage of the event.