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You can’t really call Regina a news desert. They still have a newspaper. But if you actually look under the hood you’ll discover that they stopped printing the newspaper in Regina. They stopped editing it in Regina. The editor lives somewhere else. And as far the CBC goes, well, that acronym is now synonymous with layoffs. 

Everyone from the legacy media who purports to be telling people in Regina what is going on in their own community is doing so with less resources than ever before. These are zombie news organizations.  That creates a news vacuum. A place for someone new to step in. And somebody did.

And that somebody peddles garbage. That’s not a value judgment of this new news source in Regina. It’s just the objective truth.  They’re a garbage company called Just Bins. They provide dumpsters  and news to the people of Regina. And they may be providing news to more people in Regina than anyone else.  

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Kevin O’Keefe (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher), Caleb Thompson (additional production assistance)

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