April 5: What’s a human life worth?
Well, it depends. Doesn’t it? In Haiti, some human lives are worth five dollars a day or less – if their ownders can find a job. They aren’t worth the…
Graeme Decarie
April 4: The Moncton Times and Transcript is changing….
…..it’s getting more boring. Up until two years ago, the TandT was a vicious, ranting paper – rather like Norber on a bad hair day. I remember, in particular, its…
April 3: Well done, Times and Transcript
On p. D9 is a story that is actually worth reading. “Energy industry fought Ottawa over greenhouse gas regulations.” The gist of the story is that the Canadian Association of…
April 2: The hell with it….
I’ll comment on just a couple of points because there’s almost nothing worth talking about in this miserable sheet. It has whole pages dedicated to pictures of our social betters…
March 31: Read page D 5….
My heart sank when I saw the headline “Reuben Cohen speaks out on Moncton High”. Usually, newspapers like The Moncton Times and Transcript use that “speaking out” headline to lead…
March 30: Budget..buzz.buzz..no more pennies..buzz–efficiency…buzz..
The news services are doing their usual incoherent job of presenting the news on the federal and provincial budgets. Their “news” is mostly quotations from politicians speaking the their usual…
March 29: This isn’t the fault of the TandT; but….
….Letters to the editor can be a great spot to slide in propaganda. Today’s example is a letter from Tom Harris, Director of the International Climate Science Coalition (Wow!), writing…
March 28: less and less about less and less….
In recent weeks, The Moncton Times and Transcript has become noticeably worse, even by Irving press standards. It is coming close to having no news whatever. The reasons are surely…
Jan. 25: The big picture…
“Gulf observers quit Syria” Yawn. All them there foreigners. they’re always fightin’. I guess ought help them rebels make a democracy – like ours. That’s what happens when you get…
Jan. 24: to know everything….
Commonly, journalists think they know everything. It’s not (entirely) their fault. Journalism is all about seeing through lies and false alarms,understanding the big picture, getting to the truth. Nobody can…
Jan.23: Do they do it on purpose – or are they really that incompetent?
exhibit 1. headline p. A3 “Highfield Square Tenant ready to move on” Duh – well, yeah. The place is closing. We all know that. So it was kind of expected…
Jan. 21: let’s be nice today…
Let’s not talk about the rather important stories that the TandT didn’t notice. We won’t talk about their recent report of Harper announcing his crushing fear of an Iranian nuclear…
Jan. 20: Moncton: The City that exists to get ripped off…
Today’s editorial in The Moncton Times and Transcript brought a tear to my eye. A highly successful developer (land, stadia, hockey teams, hotels) is rumoured to have bought land around…
Jan.19: A use for editorials….
Editorials were never a good idea to start with. Fault one is that the editorial pretends to speak for the whole newspaper. It can’t, of course. In the first place,…
Jan.18: No news continues.
There was really only one story worth reading today. The Common Front for Social Justice has told the finance minister he should not reduce the debt by cutting off services…
Jan. 17: The no-news snooze
Again, there’s little to say about The Moncton Times and Transcript because so little is in it. There’s the usual ad disguised as news about a new act at the…
Jan. 16: Fighting the blands….
I’m late in writing today. The problem I’m having is that today’s Moncton Times and Transcript was almost entirely frivolous and pointless. It wasn’t just the usual mix of ads…
Jan. 14: Nuthin’ to worry about, folks. Just keep moving.
Quite a number of news agencies have reported the US is moving 12,000 troops to Libya. You remember Libya. That’s the place where we just dropped tens of thousands of…
Jan. 13: The making of an editorial writer…
I remember the day well. I was twelve years old, just back to the city from scout camp, walking down St. Gerard St, when I came to a crossing. I…
Jan. 12: addendum to the day’s blog.
1. I forget to mention a local boosterism item that the Moncton TandT seems not to have heard of. that’s odd. The TandT usually remembers to print long stories about…