I cannot find a single, kind word about this whole trivial, lying, ignorant, propagandistic and generally wretched issue of the Moncton Times and Transcript. The front page has a big story that the TandT name Mayor Leblanc the city’s newsmaker of the year. Why he was named isn’t clear. Can
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 31: This is my third attempt at a blog…
haven’t had regular night’s sleep for four months, no sleep at all the last two nights, typos all over, and one hell of a cold. So we’ll see. I had hoped the Tand T would straighten out a lie it told before Christmas. This a story shopping was fantastic on
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec.3: This may be a short blog…….
I seem to be suffering miserably from a cold – and possibly flu, gangrene, tuberculosis, dandruff and late morning athlete’s foot. anyway, I want to go back to the book Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward. Now Woodward does not intrude on the story. He’s not trying to sell any version.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec.29: Wow! Stop the presses…
…fire truck in St. John gets stuck in snow on way to fire…more, no doubt, to follow. Somewhere in today’s issue is yet another page of one-liner stories from 1012 that nobody is going to read; and I fear there’s more to come. They’re still in July. NewsToday has a
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 28: 2012 is still big…
…There are at least three more pages of 2012 stories in today’s TandT. I guess it saves on staff.The front page headline? Well, you could have guessed it by looking out the window. We had a snowstorm. A lot of papers would have missed that. But the ace reporters and
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 27: ….sigh……
The whole front page of today’s Moncton Times and Transcript is an advertisement. It features a cartoon of young boys playing hockey on a village pond. If you open the page, you will find it is an ad for cars. Go figure. Section 1 has two pages of “The Year
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 26: Well, I got what I wanted…
…the latest copy of Globe, fresh from the checkout counter with the latest news I need to know about how Kate hates Camilla, and how there were ten things I didn’t know about Bill Murray – his father was a lumber salesman, for example, and Murray used to caddy. Fascinating.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 24:News media, big business and….
Christmas Eve. This is not going to be a religious blog. But it will be religious. (Don’t even ask what the difference is.) On a Christmas Eve when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, my parents, my sister and I were at a Christmas Eve supper in the basement of a
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec, 22: the main street mystery……
I wasn’t going to write a blog today, and I can promise this will be a short one. I was out, today, shopping as always in a panic as Christmas nears. Traffic was heavy, especially as one approached any mall area. When I had finished by mall experience, I headed
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec.22: blah….
It’s very hard to write a daily review of a newspaper that is trivia tarted up as news, clumsy propaganda, and important news with the important parts missing. In today’s Moncton Times and Transcript…1. Triva tarted up as news. On p. A1, there is flash that the Moncton snow budget
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec.21: An old trick….
When journalists don’t like the people they’re reporting on, they try to discredit everything those people say. And that’s not bad if the journalist has evidence. But if there is no evidence and if, in fact, the journalist doesn’t even know if there’s any, then you see a headline like
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 20: how to make a nothing into…
Wow! Big front-page story. “Public like on-street parking”. It seems the city has asked the public what it thinks now it has down-town parking.”It got an overwhelming amount of response.” Uh, yeah. Who was asked? How many were asked? Was it based on a scientific sampling? Or just asking people
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec.18: Lots of big news today….
In The Guardiam, Dec. 18,while Obama mourns the killing of 18 children in a Newtown school, he continues to send the drones over Pakistan that have killed over a hundred Pakistani children as well as over a thousand of their parents. Think children in Newtown are scared? On the cheerier
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 18: I was wrong.
I don’t know Daniel bourgeois. I first heard of him last night when I received a post that he had resigned Moncton City Council due to “conflict of interest”. My reaction was pretty negative. This is a province in which conflict of interest is practically a requirement for any elective
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. Batter up…..
The bad news is right at the top of p. 1. The main feature of today’s edition is an interview of David Alward by Brent Mazerolle. In fact, There are TWO pages of interview with THREE suitable-for-framing pictures of Alward. It begins with a full column of babble about how
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 15: words, words….
Words don’t just have logical meanings. They can also convey meanings that have nothing to do with any logic. When I was a kid in Montreal, we used to call French kids “Frenchpeasoups”. The idea, I suppose, was that French people were addicted to pea soup, and this indicated their
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 14: hang out the flags, serve the drinks….
…this is a proud, proud day for Canada. Under the leadership of Harper, Canada today becomes the first country in the world to pull out of the Kyoto accord to control climate change. Imagine. Canada leading the world because, as Harper says, “the Kyoto accord is socialist”. Why is it
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 14: Interesting story in The Guardian..
…for Dec. 14. Too bad it didn’t make the Moncton Times and Transcript. The European Court of Human Rights found Moslem terrorists guilty of holding an American citizen prisoner for almost four years, sodomizing him, beating him, torturing him. And it was all a case of mistaken identity.Oops – typo
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 13: how different, how very different from us…
North Korea has launched a rocket carrying a satellite into space. The UN Security Council is furious. Why? The leading members of the UN Security Council all routinely launch satellites into space.Oh, but such a rocket could be developed to fire a nuclear bomb at the US or Russia or
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 12: My apologies….
As a reader pointed out to me, I missed an important story in yesterday’s Moncton Times and Transcript.So here it is.Briefly, Irving oil wanted (guess what) an increase in petroleum prices. But they didn’t take their case to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board which is supposed to deal
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