The Moncton Times and Transcript for this day isn’t its usual self. Instead, it is more boring and irrelevant than ever. The only thing worth reading in it is a letter “Mr. Toew’s doesn’t understand prisons”. It’s from the chairman of the Inmate Committee at Dorchester Penitentiary. And it’s the
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 20:….(sigh)…..
Go to Google. Check out the news site. It’s not great. It’s not even very good. But it does give far better coverage to important news (and a wider range of sources) than all the Irving press put together. It even has a special section of New Brunswick news. I
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 29: Okay. No more mr. nice guy.
An island off the coast of BC, Haida Gwaii, has been making news around the world for over a week. It’s even the subject of a UN investigation. At last, it’s made The Moncton Times and Transcript. The island, a home of our Haida native peoples, is one of the
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 28: Nice, positive…I promise
Today is the day we talk – not about unpleasant things, but about how to make the The Moncton Times and Transcript better. Not good, just better. First, though, let’s be clear there are some things that cannot or should not be changed. So let’s line them up so we
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 27: Okay. I’ll be good….
…. Tomorrow, I’ll be positive. I’ll suggest a few things that might make the The Moncton Times and Transcript a better newspaper. Of course, nothing on heaven above or earth below will make this a better newspaper so long as it has its present ownership. Under that ownership, it’s purpose
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 26: Mickey Mouse journalism….
Wow!! excitement. excitement. a real, pro football team might come to Moncton (oops. sorry, Metro). Wowie! That’s nice. But just for once, I’d like to see a financial breakdown of municipal spending and benefits on one of these affairs. Exactly how much does it cost us to get such an
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 25: Things happened in the world….
…but not in the pages of The Moncton Times and Transcript. One job of an editor is to go over reports, news items, to have a strong sense of what’s going on the world, and to select those stories which best illustrate what is going on. In the whole of
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 24: Jim Manley and SuperSteve….
Every heard of Jim Manley? You certainly haven’t read about him in the Times and Transcript. Mr. Manley is 79, retired, has never committed a crime in his life – and is now sitting in an Israeli prison. He’ll be there, they say, until he signs a false confession. Why?
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 23:Disgusting
Today’s headline on p. 1 of The Moncton Times and Transcript is a pretty strong example of what our North American newspapers have fallen to. It is pure propaganda for the shale gas industry. Dr. Lapierre’s talk last night was set up for propaganda – and both Lapierre and his
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct.22: Just back from anti-lockout demo….
..the one by bus drivers and mechanics at city hall. There were some 30 or so protesters being quite peaceful, a squad car, and eight or so “security” guards rather amateurishly placed at considerable intervals around the perimeter. They didn’t look like police. The looked more like private guards hired
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 21: Whence and Wherefore the Liberals?
In The Moncton Times and Transcript, Bill Belliveau’s weekly column is the closest thing we have to an official statement of the opinion of the Liberal Party of New Brunswick. His Oct. 20 column on shale gas, then, is one to pay attention to. In this case, it is especially
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 20: Transit lockout: The reason wny…
The story doesn’t appear in The Moncton Times and Transcript. You had to be listening to the CBC that Norbert despises to be able to catch it. Mayor Leblanc has suggested that the solution to the problem of Moncton’s transit system might be to privatize it. It might take a
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 18: Visions vs. mirages….
For the second day in a row, The Moncton Times and Transcript has a front page story on the demolition of Wesley Memorial United Church. As others of this paper’s twice-told stories, it says nothing of substance in the first appearance, and rather less in the second. This time, it’s
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 18: Mea culpa…
I don’t know how I could have been so foolish as to miss it. A reader pointed out something very important to me, something I had missed.(maybe I really should have become a staffwriter for the Times and Transcript). She sent me a video of Dr. Lapierre at one of
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 17:
A reader requested that I publish a copy of a sample post I sent to government for information.If you do it on an access to information form ( which would be found on the government website), it’s a simple matter. There are simply a few lines to fill – and
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 16: Liar, liar…….
..Pants on fi-re…There is such a thing as the ethics of journalism. There are numerous book on the subject. I’m pretty sure about that because I spent a term teaching the ethics of journalism to working journalists in Hong Kong. Today’s Times and Transcript is a powerful example of a
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 15:..a waste of paper
There is only one opinion column in today’s Times and Transcript worth reading. That makes the editorial page the strong part of this edition because there is not a single news story worth reading. There seemed a possibility of a story on p. 1, “Metro food banks balk at central
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 14: Questions on a Sunday
I would assume that most journalists in New Brunswick got their training from the journalism school at St. Thomas University. That’s a small, but pretty good school, with some instantly recognizable names among its faculty. So it must teach its students how to ask questions. Why, then, do most journalists
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 13: Oh, Brent…..
….it’s at the top of the oped page. Brent Mazerolle’s column. For a moment – alas! just a moment – I thought it was going to be about the contamination at Highfield Square. It was – sort of – eventually— That first half of it was vague summary of some
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Oct. 12: Read Alec Bruce…
…take it seriously,very seriously, especially the last sentence. For all his gentle tone, Mr. Bruce is reminding us of the central fact of our time. The American empire is collapsing just as those of the British and French and Dutch and Spanish and Portuguese did before. It’s the last of
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