The front page wins back its spot as the “dumb-down” page with a big story about how Tim Horton’s is changing its cup sizes.Just above it is another piece of fast-breaking news. Moncton is having a mayoralty election this year. And the big news is that there’s nothing yet to
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 11: my own conspiracy theory….
(my pologies for nissing a day. I had computer problems. But I spoke sharply to it, so it is now working properly.) Since, once again, the Moncton Times and Tribune has no serious news worth discussing, let’s take a close look at a minor item because it takes up a
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 9: Why corporations don’t give a damn about the damage they do…
In that variety of capitalism we like to call “free market” (because free is a nice word), there is no morality, no responsibility, no mercy. The corporation exists to make money. Nothing else. To make money whatever the cost to people or nature or the future. Indeed, the only future
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 7: I awoke about seven…..
showered, dressed, and took the stairs down to the ground floor (I could have taken the elevator; but I wanted the exercise so I could become beautiful again); walked out the front door, hung a right for some ten metres, and turned into a supermarket to get some cereal and milk. Next
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 6: hockey, convention centres, and main street.
Ste. Catherine St. was the main shopping street of Montreal for most of the twentieth century. It was the street of the great department stores, the popular restaurants, the clubs, boutiques and, way at the end of all the shops and clubs stood The Forum, the legendary home of the
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 5: Sorry for today…
After weeks of packing, moving, and unpacking, I find I just can’t write a coherent column today. There’s really nothing in the Moncton TandT on this Jan. 5, anyway except for excellent columns by Alec Bruce and Jody Dallaire. As for news, the world (yes, including Moncton) is on the edge of
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 4: The new year..
The banner headline of the Moncton Times and Trnascript for today is that the mayor of neighbouring Dieppe will not seek re-election. Wow! The advice of Eric Lewis on the op ed page is that this is the year Moncton, teetering on the edge of the greatest financial crisis the world
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 3: No news news
I didn’t even attempt to write a blog on yesterday’s Times and Transcript. There was simply nothing in it. The whole day after New Year’s Day edition was about what happened in 1911. But we already knew that. Today’s, January 3, is almost as bad. The front page has a
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 29: Hey! Donne-moi un break…
The story leads the NewsToday section. The American Council on Science and Health tells us that fracking is not a threat to health. Isn’t that nice? And the council is a really professional body, too, made up of oh, just oodles of concerned scientists and medical people. And who puts up the
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec.28: Back to the Future….
One of the problems in understanding the news is to figure out what to believe in various sources. For example, today I came across a story which quoted a medical study estimating that 14,000 American infants died as a result of the recent nuclear plant accident in Japan. According to
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 23: The silly season, lack of ethics, the usual…
There is really no news in today’s Moncton Times and Transcript. There is just triviality, horoscope, comics… In other words, it’s business as usual at the TandT. That makes Norbert’s column particularly annoying. He gets off on a rant about how newspaper news media just report silly news in this,
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec.22: the news media – entertainment, propaganda, trivia, very little news.
Again, most of today’s TandT is trivial. Again, important news is barely touched on. There’s still no analyis (and barely a mention) of the bill allowing the US army to imprison people without charge or trial – or any mention of how this is certain to affect Canada. They do mention
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 21: another dog lost in Moncton…
For the second day in a row, front page news in The Moncton Times and Transcript is the flash that another dog is missing in Moncton. Well, maybe not a flash; it happened almost a month ago. But it’s still front page news. In fact, it’s probably the most important
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