….. of the TandT, I wouldn’t have to waste time as I did with the letter below in which I give one, last try to squeeze an answer out of our department of the environment….If I were editor, I could assign a reporter to do it. And if the reporter go…
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 20: Page One…Read all about it….
The big headline, the leader for today’s news is that jury selection has begun for a murder case. Is this information you have an immediate use for? Notices have been sent to a thousand people for jury duty. So? Many have already been excused. So? Abou…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 19: ..a new meaning to blah….
Two, front page stories on people being honoured and celebrated. Gutsy writing. Straight to the point. Important to know. We need more halls of fame. The biggest story gives us a tour of paramedic training in Montreal. The news YOU need to know.If you …
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 18: I was slow to catch on…..
A reader sent me the editorial below from yesterday’s Telegraph-Journal. As I read it, I realized something I should have figured out much earlier. I should have figured it out when I read Saturday’s TandT editorial – and, in fact, when I read the Tand…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 17: The editorial is a keeper….
Of all the prime ministers of Canada, Brian Mulroney is the only one to have been publicly humiliated for accepting a huge bribe while prime minister, hiding it from taxes and lying about it to official inquiries. Others have been more discreet and leg…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 16:…(sigh)….
Beaujolais Nouveau is a wildly overpriced wine that has a wildly over-hyped debut for each year’s edition. What makes it different from most other wines is its very, very short aging process, usually a few weeks. But this world is full of just-pretend …
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 15: A high grade for the TandT….
The high grade is for the story on Dr. Cleary’s talk last night when she discussed her report on shale gas in New Brunswick. The high grade is a D plus. Well, hey, that’s high for The Moncton Times and Transcript.Much of the high grade is because the T…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 14: The worst..the very worst…ever……
I don’t think I can find a kind word to say about today’s Moncton Times and Transcript. It is so bad that the best part of it is the editorial – and it’s a pretty boring editorial. There are huge gaps in the news, and almost everything that appears in …
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 13: it’s now 9:30 on Monday evening….
…I’m beginning the blog now because I want to make a guess at how the Moncton Times and Transcript will cover the General Petraeus story. Around the world, the best newspapers are emphasizing that it looks as though Petraeus was “asked” to resign, no…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov.12: ..And the big story is…….
… “Moncton wine expo looks for ways to grow further”… Wow! I’ll bet that took some digging. The news YOU need to know.Actually, most of today’s Moncton Times and Transcript looks as if it were put together several days ago to produce a paper on the…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 11: Two tales…….
It’s Sunday, so there is, as one of the blessings of a Sunday, no Moncton Times and Transcript today. However, there are a couple of interesting stories in the news. And the first one is a sort of mystery story.General Petraeus, commonly hailed as the …
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov.10: de Adder has…..
…a first rate editorial cartoon. Always a good artist, he has this time brought in a serious topic (the failure of our prime minister to do much for veterans); and he has done it with humour – a very hard-edged humour. This is first-rate. (It’s a pic…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 9: Fool that I am….
I begin this blog on the evening of Nov. 8 because I suddenly realized that a line in the Moncton Times and Telegraph had blown right by my attractive but empty head.el stupidoThe story on the honourees appointed to the NB business hall of fame mention…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 8: well, lively…….
But let’s warm up with the small stuff….On page A1 we find a story by Alan Cochrane that seniors are furious at companies which impose extra charges on people who pay their monthly bills by mail rather than computer. Quite true. And it’s typical of m…
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There’s little to say about today’s Moncton Times and Transcript that has not been said before.Page A3 is cute. It has a story about inductions into the Junior Achievement New Brunswick Business Hall of Fame. (Curiously, though, the inductees all seem …
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 6: How to say nothing….
It’s another slim day in the Moncton Times and Transcript. I got a sense of that even before I saw the paper. As I drove my children to school, I heard on CBC radio that the government knew months ago that its spending was going to go substantially int…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 5: slim pickings
Today’s edition of the Moncton Times and Transcript is a short read. Readership of section A will be limited to those who are all excited about the wine expo and/or the dog show. Sports is interesting mainly for its story headlines. Readers just love those macho verbs. “Miracles blast Jazz”
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 2: A long time ago, I got lost….
….while driving on a back road somewhere near Halifax. There was forest on both sides then, suddenly, a clearing on my right, and big house, isolated, gaunt and shabby, with a dreadful air of evil about it, like the opening scene of a horror movie. A huge sign, stark in
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov.2: Wow! Big news……….
…that didn’t make The Moncton Times and Transcript – even though it came out in plenty of time.The Alberta oilsands may be running into serious trouble. Its processing is so expensive that the energy bosses are cutting back on investing because the profits are so small. Oilsands is the main
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov.1: Things I hate to think about.
I am beginning this blog on the evening of Oct. 31. It all began with a note I received that I am invited (you, too. Everybody is invited) to a talk by New Brunswick’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Cleary. It’s Nov. 14, 7p.m. at 22 Church St. (That’s the church
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