Jan.7: Sorry to miss Sunday…
This flu is a real gem. Like an unwanted guest, it never seems quite ready to leave. Huge gaffe by our federal minister of International Cooperation, a famous unknown called…
Graeme Decarie
Jan. 5: THEY NOTICED…
The Moncton Times and Transcript hasn’t said much; but it has noticed there’s an Idle No More movement.They haven’t noticed what lies behind it – the wretched housing, the poverty,…
Jan.4: this is the second of two Jan. 4 posts..
I’m back to the real world, more less, but surprised the Tand T had no story on my bout of flu. It’s a quite vicious one. I mean, they had…
Jan. 4:a delay on Jan. 3………
I’m actually beginning this on the night of Jan. 3. I didn’t write a blog earlier today. It was partly because I was just too ill with this flu. But…
Jan. 2: don’t kiss me….
..no matter how great the urge. I don’t know what this latest round of flu or colds or whatever is all about. But it’s a honey. I’ve slept only one…
Jan1: For the first time……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…