May 21:
NewsToday devotes four (plus) pages to the visit of a man whose only distinction in life was being born into a royal family. There is also a picture of his…
Graeme Decarie
May 19:Will Montreal come to Moncton?
First, just a quick look at the Times and Transcript.1. Four pages of pictures and story about Prince Charles and Duchess Whatever. And they aren’t even here yet.2. A two…
May 18: Quebec and spoiled brats
Okay – The Moncton Times and Transcript quickly. What is in the TandT? 1. Brilliant column by Alec Bruce.2. disturbing column by David Suzuki.3. Phony action on shale gas by…
May 17: Prince Charles and Camilla to walk on….
…a street in St. John. Oh, I could die. I could just die. That’s the big story in section C. But skip through the rest (almost all ads) to p.…
May 16:Lots of ads….
Not much news.That makes it hard to talk about what’s in the Moncton Times and Transcript – because almost nothing’s in it. So today, we’ll take a quick look at…
May 14: Wretched…
For weeks, as municipal and institutional election campaigns were held throughout New Brunswick, The Moncton Times and Transcript told us almost nothing about the candidates or the issues. All that…
May 14: just voted…..
It was 10 a.m. The voting was steady, mostly of the elderly. I wonder how much the voters knew about the issues and the candidates….. I confess I had no…
May 13: Acadienouvelle
About a week ago, a reader asked me to comment on the quality of Acadienouvelle. So, on a Sunday morning, here’s a general impression. The standard of journalism is clearly…
May 12:We’ll start with a student column because…
….it’s almost the only thing worth reading in today’s Moncton Times and Transcript. Jana Giles, a grade 8 student at Lewisville Middle School, writes on p. F7 that iti would…
May 11:Clinic gives cosmetic surgery a facelift….
Wow! That’s the headline for a SPECIAL REPORT on the f ront page of The Moncton Times and Transcript. Need your eyelid lifted, nose shortened, male breast reduction, tummy tuck?…
May 10: Sackville hopefuls seek a better community
I”m so glad to hear that news about the Sackville candidates. I had been worried they would say they were all trying to make Sackville a worse community. That’s the…
May 9:The wisdom of the Times and Transcript
Today, there was a major, New Burnswick story that the Moncton Times and Transcript did not report on. I’m glad. It was embarassiing to be a resident of a province…
May6: Civic elections? what civic elections?
In fairness, the Moncton Times and Transcript has three stories on city politics. One is on the last meeting before the election for the Moncton council. One is about the…
May 7: The best investigative journalism…
….in today’s Moncton Times and Transcript is a letter to the editor. It’s headed ‘Paper misconstrues cancer study story’. The letter accuses the TandT, with considerable evidence, of deliberately misrepresenting…
May 6: Sunday morning…..
…so what the hell (figuratively speaking), let’s talk about morality. No, I am not going to start quoting from The Bible. The trouble with people who glue their noses to…
May 5: oooooh! Another royal tour story…
This time, the tour was by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales in 1860. (It was to St. John because you could breathe the air in St. John in those days.)…
May 4: It’s wise to be simple, but….
….not wise to be simple-minded. Most editorials in the Moncton Times and Transcript are written in simple style with simple, everyday language. That’s good. Beware of people who love big…
May 3: ooh!ooh! Big story..but hush hush…..
Are you ready? Last summer, a busload of 40 people from the British government, the royal household, and even the provincial government travelled around the New Brunswick to see where…
Why editors should not write editorials….
Today’s editorial in the Moncton Times and Transcript is bizarre. It begins with a review of the mayoralty debates in Moncton and Dieppe. In both debates, the candidates, it says,…
May 1: Today’s prize for bad journalism goes to……
…me. About I week ago, I was critical of a Moncton Times and Transcript story because it was trivial. It was about the world shortage of helium – and the…