Opening Episode 7 of 2023 – we touch on the popularity of our recent podcasts, spiking towards the top of the charts with our most-heard civic election coverage.
5:30 Why Marty has always represented a different point of view about the local media and the way stories are covered: the lessons he learned in the 1980’s from community leaders like Yoram Hamizrachi and Nick Ternette. They understood the terrain and with his own experiences as a taxi driver he gained insight into the way media reports on stories. After describing his rise as a spokeman for drivers, you’ll hear…
7:37 Rare audio from CKY-TV news 30 years ago: Kelly Dehn takes a cab ride. Hear him talk about a cabbie murder in 1989 and finding out why the authorities didn’t have any urge to investigate what went wrong.
9:00 Taxi safety was big news in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Marty recalls the issues from shields to violence (just like buses in the present day!), and recites the names of reporters at CBC CKY and Global who turned to him for insight and analysis.
11:00 Government failures caused mayhem for cab drivers back then, and now, it’s harming City transit operators. Wait til you hear how many were assaulted in January; cabbies in the 1980’s would have gone on strike, so why don’t the transit operators?
13:43 A transit crime round up – Marty ties together the threats/intimidation, biting, robberies, violence, faced by a teenage girl, a 30 year old woman, another teenage girl… almost always at the hands of female perps. This is the new normal, folks. Hear about one passenger who had enough in St. Vital; meanwhile Route 20 delivers real-life experiences with the decay. Marty refers back to his old interview with Kelly Dehn to illuminate who is to blame for the deterioration of safe bus service in Winnipeg today- and urges City Council to be accountable for standing by while women in particular were being brutalized.
29:00 Part 2- Spirited Kenny asks chatgpt what it knows about Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hear what AI has to say about our city, attractions, and when it stumbles over a suburb. Kenny flags the response about the famous folks listed from Winnipeg and the CFL Bombers. Overall, if chatgpt was a radio caller in the old days, Kenny would’ve hung up.
34:44 Part 3– Marty concludes the episode by first, digging up yet two more examples of street-level mayhem that fit the pattern he identified; he explains how only modern technology has kept the homicide total from even greater heights.
40:00 – Think the Frontier Centre is the only target of slanted reporting in Winnipeg? Steve Vogelsang was an instructor at Red River College when TGCTS was airing on Kick-FM. While we didn’t have much to do with him, unlike other RRC staffers he appreciated the work we did with the student interns. Last week the Free Press ran a hit piece on him and a film being made about his lapse into criminal activity. Steve proclaimed on Facebook the WFP never tried to contact him or the producers: “I taught journalism to approximately 700 first year students over 9 years but never saw a single story as rife with untruths, errors, and inaccurate implications.” We air his grievances about the “bald-faced lies” in the article and illustrate how the MSM cares less about facts than the agenda of the gatekeepers. Which is another reason to support our independent media:
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