Sept. 26: non-stories…
…the art of inventing news. Today’s Moncton Times and Transcript offers us several examples, right up there on the front page. We’ll start at the bottom with the most glaring…
Graeme Decarie
Sept. 25: What on earth is Harper about?
It was a post from a reader that got me started on this – not something in The Moncton Times and Transcript because there’s nothing much in the TandT. But…
Sept. 24: News to come?
When I began this blog something over two years ago, what started it was a long series of editorials attacking New Brunswick public schools. For venom, rant and ignorance, I…
Sept. 22: The headline as propaganda…Almost
It’s common in journalism. Headlines often reflect the prejudices (or the ignorances) of their writers – usually news editors. Take, for example, p.1 of NewsToday. “Violent Protests kill 15 in…
Sept. 21: I agree with Premier Alward…..
….and, oh, it hurts. I don’t agree with the values (if they have any) of the New Brunswick Conservatives or the Liberals. Therefore, I would not run for office for…
Sept. 2 0: What isn’t in the TandT…..
….and what shouldn’t have been…. Drones are unmanned aircraft that are used for espionage, rocket fire, and bombing. You have probably heard that the US is using drones in Pakistan,…
Sept. 19: credit where credit is due
The Moncton Times and Transcript has carried a story that I did not think it would. Mother Jones Magazine took a secret video of Romney giving a speech at a…
Sept. 18: "Rosie the cat finds a home"
This is a a big story on p.1. And it has a picture of ‘Rosie’ for those who have never seen a cat. There’s also a picture of a man…
Sept. 17: Wow! Did the TandT ever blow it!
Section A is pretty much a wipe-out unless you just live for pictures of kids playing ball hockey and for a picture of a man with his mouth open. The…
Sept. 16: a very late Sunday night special….
I write this now because there’s a strong chance the Moncton Times and Transcript will not publish this story – not just out of editorial sloppiness, but because of sheer…
Sept. 16: Stray thought on a Sunday…
Inevitably, if you argue current events, somebody is bound to say “All you do is talk about problems. You don’t have any solutions.”Quite true. You see, before you can present…
Sept. 15: Big gaps in the TandT….
The Moncton Times and Transcript which vowed to keep us fully and accurately informed on the shale gas issue has still not mentioned that medical staff at the Moncton Hospital…
Sept. 14: What didn’t happen in the TandT…
In the last two days, physicians at the Moncton Hospital and medical staff at the Dumont have voted for a government moratorium on fracking for shale gas in this province.…
Sept. 13: A brief supplement to this day’s blog….
I have been waiting for a story that has not appeared in the TandT. An American woman named Kimberley Rivera has been living in Canada as a refugee for four…
Sept. 13: Maybe I’m too hard on the TandT….
…maybe they aren’t lying. Maybe they’re just illiterate. A1. “Billboard company cuts Dieppe presence” Wow! Those words clearly indicate that a billboard company has done something. It has cut its…
Sept.12: Gee! Wayne Gretzky
Today’s Victoria Colonist has an interesting story on how Harper said in 2007 that global warming is the biggest crisis the world faces. But ever since, he has been encouraging…
Sept. 10: The invisible story
It’s not in the Moncton Times and Transcript, though one would think it kind of important, as important, say, as a big, section A story that Riverview Council has set…
Sept. 10: Norbert says it all….
Seriously, Norbert does say it all. It’s in a quite decent column on the editorial page in which he comments on an extraordinary discovery about our DNA. He says the…
Sept. 9: more lying?
There’s a remarkable story that is not in Saturday TandT – though it has appeared in papers around the world. Let me bore you a little bit at the start…
September 8: liars, fools? and Harper….
I am beginning this in the early evening of Sept. 7 because of outrage at what Stephen Harper has done. It is dangerous, potentially murderous- and it cannot be excused…