Who could possibly bloody care? This isn’t news. This isn’t news of any sort And It’s miles from being a headline story. Apparently, Alward said this to the editorial board of the TandT. Wow! What a brave man to face those penetrating minds! (There is no indication that the editorial
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 16: Almost half of section A is ads…
…and that’s the only half worth reading. Page one features a hap, hap, happy speech by Frank McKenna on how great everything in the world is. It is reported by the TandT’s specialist in reporting on silly speeches, Brent Mazerolle. McKenna says Canada is the happiest country in the world.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 15: Hits and misses for the TandT in the coming week.
1. A sure fire story to appear in the TandT is that Canada’a gallant Foreign Affairs Minister spoke out to demand the US get tough on Syria. Gee. That’s strange for the member of a government which supports US action, but has refused to take any part in it. Why
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 14: Let’s skip section A.
Today, the best part (and the most part) of Section A is the car ads. NewsToday leads with a big story about everybody’s friend, Frank McKenna. He says a pipeline deal is good for N.B. Well, what else would you expect him to say? McKenna decided a long time ago
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 13: Where the tell did Brunswick News dig up a Kurt Peacock?
There he is (almost) every day at the head of the NewsToday section. And I can think of no reason wny. His piece is not a news story. It’s a (sort of) opinion column. Invariably, it quotes a hero from a member of the Irving crowd on some issue, treats
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept.12: The journalistic culture of lying by omission.
When Obama was first campaigning, he often quoted Martin Luther King’s ringing words of the 1960s to end racial discrimination in the US. The words were “I have a dream…” What Obama did not say, and what the news media have never said in the more than 40 years since
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 11 1/2: This is simply a footnote to the blog for Sept. 1 – but quite a footnote.
The Canadian Transport Safety Board has announced that the crude oil that killed 47 people in Lac Megantic was NOT properly classified. It had been listed to authorities as a type of crude that was less volatile than it really was. Far from being relatively safe, it was as volatile
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept 11: the propaganda buildup to attack Syria has begun.
First, though, let me pass on a web site which was sent to me by a reader. It’s a superb interview on the decay and collapse of journalism. It’s by a person more knowledgeable in the field than I am. And it paints a picture even worse than I had
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 10: And the big story of the day is…
…headline, page 1…Riverview man is new, national president of Ducks Unlimited. Wow! Get your paper fast before this one sells out. Now, I certainly don’t intend to suggest that the choice of a local person for president of Ducks Unlimited is not newsworthy. Of course, it is. But it’s not
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 9: Let’s start on a light note because ….
…the rest gets pretty heavy. On Saturday, Aurelle Pare, who always writes an excellent column on health, wrote one on an ear problem called tinnitus. It causes ringing in the ear, or a buzz, and it’s annoying. It develops when the ears are exposed to excessive noise – like very
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 7:…oh, my….oh, my…oh my…
…oh, my… If you will check yesterdays’ blog, you will find a comment from a reader at the foot of it. The note says that yesterday, CBC news reported that U de Moncton has released the news that it is opening an investigation into the qualifications of Prof. Lapierre. You
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 6: The problem of New Brunswick…
It’s all summed up on page 1. “Support rises for Grits, poll suggests.” New Brunswickers, who kicked out the Liberals in the last provincial election are poised to vote them back in for the next one. Why? The Liberals have shown nothing in leadership or policy. They are financed by
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 5: Some real news on p. 1
University “Tuition costs keep soaring: report”. Even as universities grow, they are pricing themselves out of reach. In the US, it has reached the point at which pensioners are still paying down their university debts. And it’s all quite unnecessary. Never very good teaching institutions (almost no university teachers have
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 4: Wow! A tattoo festival..
My apologies for my lack of any paragraph structure. I write this with one. But my Ipad has its own ideas. (My desktop computer, one month and a bit after I ordered Bell service, is still not working. Not, of course, that I’m implying anything about Bell service.) Shall put
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Sept. 2: You can’t go home again…
I was born, and lived most of my life in Montreal. My ancestors from France settled there about 1651. The old road that connected the Decarie farms is still in use – as the six lane, jam-packed Decarie Expressway. But,oh my, it’s changed. Culturally, it’s diverse than ever – and
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 26: Mr. Baird is outraged….
That’s what it says in the Montreal papers. And for good reason. There’s a possibility those terrible Syrian government people have used poison gas. Oh, my goodness. It’s a war, and they’re killing people in a way that’s not nice. But, you know, it’s different when Syrians do it. Like,
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 24: Where we are; and where we are going
The popular myth is that we are in a democracy in which all are born equal – which suggests that we all have an equal voice in government. That is obvious nonsense. With very few exceptions, the children of the very rich are the ones who grow up to become
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 23:apologies…
In the chaotic soap opera that is my life, |have suddently been called to Montreal and Ottawa. So, rather than talk about the Times and Transcript each day (which gets pretty repetitious because the Times has the same failings and idiocies every day), I think it better to talk about
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 21: Exciting development for future of downtown…
….small house in downtown is moved to lot next door. “House move is seen as good for downtown.” The word ‘trivia’ hardly seems adequate for this sort of mindless bilge. And the police have seized evidence in the deaths of two boys in Campbellton. Have they seized evidence in the
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 20: Well….
…I am still not using my own computer. Things were looking up as Bell installed the connection after only three weeks. But they did it wrong – and who can tell when they’ll get it right? I have to call them again and again and listen to recorded voices saying
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