PM Open Thread: Marvin Zindler, EYE Witness News

I remember him (4.00 / 1)

we lived in Lake Jackson for a couple of years when I was a kid - 1st through 4th grade. I still remember him from seeing him on the news way back then.

I was in Houston over Christmas & saw his reports again - he sounds exactly the same as I remember from when I was 10. I wish him well.

We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty - Firefly

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by: BeckyH @ Fri Jul 06, 2007 at 16:37:35 PM CDT

another thing about him (4.00 / 2)

Is that he moved on from just being sensational to doing very good things for regular people who were caught in consumer nightmares or having some sort of horrible health crisis.

A large corporation would learn pretty quickly to not f**k with Marvin. Might as well pony up and take care of the hassle  they'd been causing the consumer.

Same with people who had severe health problems. Whole medical centers would melt to take care of some needy kid.

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by: muse @ Fri Jul 06, 2007 at 17:00:48 PM CDT

awesome guy (4.00 / 1)

rumor has it he also used to be a sheriff's deputy.  also, he was portrayed as Melving Thorpe in "the best little whorehouse in texas"

talk about a life of adventure....

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by: Nate Shiner @ Sun Jul 08, 2007 at 00:35:23 AM CDT

My Marvin Zindler experience (4.00 / 1)

I actually met Marvin on a job interview at KTRK. I often refer to that interview as it really educated me about how network news actually operates.

Marvin seemed like an OK guy, though as an IT professional I don't think I would have enjoyed supporting him. I would classify him as an "High Maintenance, Old School User", in that he is very used to the power he has with his seniority and is used to getting his way.

You also have to get past his face-to-face appearance, but to paraphrase the Yoda line "At his age, look as good, I will not."

Marvin helped me get the city to dredge a ditch behind my house. Five years after the city flooded from Hurricane Alison, I finally got an engineer to come to my house, but only after Marvin stepped in. The coolest part is that it wasn't even a news piece; he contacted the city and an engineer came out.

One thing I did find odd about Marvin is that he supported the innocence of Ken Lay and even soapboxed one evening asking the Bush administration to give Lay "the speedy trial he deserves, based on our Constitution". This was nearly a year before Lay's actual trial and eventual death. I thought at the time that it was too bad that Marvin didn't realize that the Bush administration doesn't give a damn about the Constitution and that Ken Lay was very culpable for the crushed lives resulting from the collapse of Enron.

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How do you inform your countrymen that the nation is on fire when they're too busy roasting marshmallows?

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by: AmirBukfifti @ Mon Jul 09, 2007 at 12:57:14 PM CDT