I Am Inspired to Fight Injustice

If you are like me and you grew up in Houston, you likely know about Marvin Zindler. He worked for the local ABC station, Channel 13, which he joined in early 1973. He worked there until he died of pancreatic cancer that had spread to his liver in 2007. He produced reports like this one from 1982 on rats and roaches at restaurants regularly.

Outside of Houston, people have seen a movie based on his work, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. It was released in 1982 starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds, with Dom DeLuise playing Zindler, and it debuted as a show on Broadway in 1978. This was based on his busting a place of prostitution in La Grange that he shared on Channel 13.

While he is from Houston and actually belonged to my former temple, Beth Israel, I never met Zindler. At least while he was alive! At my father's funeral in early September, I saw that my father is very close to Zindler now. Here is Zindler's plaque on the wall of the mausoleum at Beth Israel Memorial Garden, part of Woodlawn:

Zindler was a lot of things to a lot of people. What stands out to me was that he fought for justice and against people or businesses doing bad things. He also spent time trying to help children or people who needed relief. In 1962, he worked for the Harris County Sheriff's Department, where he founded the department's consumer fraud unit. He worked there until 1972, just ahead of joining Channel 13.

The world has changed a lot since Zindler was calling out slime in the ice machine and other things. The world no longer watches the local news like it used to. It doesn't read the local paper as much as it used to read it years ago. In Houston, we lost one of the two papers. The world relies more on the internet these days than television or newspapers.

I never worked in media before, but I started to do so in 2015, when I launched New Cannabis Ventures. I have learned a lot about the media over the past 9 years. It's now been 11 years since I launched my cannabis-focused investment service, 420 Investor. I have never been a detective, though my wife thinks that I am one, mainly though my digging in on the cannabis sector. Lots of scammers! I developed a reputation for calling out bad actions.

It's not just the cannabis industry, of course, that has good people doing good things and bad people doing bad things. That is the way the whole world works. With the internet hosting so much, perhaps too much, news and information, it can be hard to find out some things. Often, what is on the internet is not true. It can be very difficult to find reliable sources of information.

If you are the victim of an injustice, you can post about it on social media or your own website, but good luck having anyone find that. You can always try to hire a lawyer and file a lawsuit, but this is expensive and challenging.

I am inspired by Marvin Zindler's work, and I want to help fight injustice in a modern way. I am willing to review your complaint against a business and to write about it if I find it worthy of sharing here. Just scroll down to the bottom of this page and send me a message!