July 28: Extra – and just for New Brunswick.
This is an extra and unusual edition of my blog.It does not quote any press. And it deals strictly with the press in this province of New Brunswick. The good…
Graeme Decarie
July 27: this time, it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad me.
Today (July 26) there was an infuriating letter in Letters to the Editor for the Moncton Times and Transcript. It was especially irritating because it reflects the views of over…
July 25: A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Sorry for the long intro below. It’s a sort of history of the world since 1914. It’s necessary because the news media never mentioned most of this. For those who…
July 12: One runs out of titles….
Today’s front page story for Irving press was a about a woman from Britain who just flew all the way to Moncton so she could see her favourite band. Ther…
July 17: Disgusting stuff
This might be a long and wordy one. Forgive me. It’s because I’ll be away at the shore at some point this week – and without a computer. As well,…
July 14: The World Tomorrow
Headline in the Irving papers – Killer gets life sentence with no chance of parole, for a teen’s murder. The killer is a twenty year old from a poor and…
July 12: Enough Hypocracy
Forgive me for a long intro. Skip it if you like. It’s angry at first. Then it gets damned nasty and, in the view of many people, unpatriotic. (For which…
July 5: Should North Korea have nuclear weapons?
No. Nor should anybody else. To get all mad at North Korea is silly when the far greater dangers are the U.S., China, and Russia. (And the U.S. would never…
July 3: problems ignored.
I’m starting this on a Sunday, and the first part will be about the news of New Brunswick in the Irving press. Actually, there is no news in the Irving…
July 1: For Canadians only on Canada Day
Oh, all the news media and politicians will talk about what a glorious country this is. And, I certainly think this is the best country in the world to live…
June 30: William Grant Stairs……
….a Trudeau hero for Canada’s 150th birthday. (six stories down.)___________________________________________________________ http://www.cbc.ca/news/multimedia/hong-kong-after-the-handover-2-decades-of-chinese-rule-1.4183707 I found the story above intriguing because I worked for some time in Hong Kong when it was under…
June 28: Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-sniper-shot-iraq-1.4179825 Justin Trudea says that killing a person at 3.5 kilometres is something all Canadians should celebrate. Anyway, the victim was an ISIS extremist. At 3.5 kilometres, the sniper could…
June 26: Canadian hero kills—-somebody….
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/highrises-evacuated-in-london-amid-safety-concerns-about-cladding-1.4176046 Our news media haven’t, as a rule, paid much attention to what caused the terrible high-rise fire in London, England. The cause was the much admired ability of capitalism…
June 23: The curse of living in interesting times.
In my last blog, I mentioned that the wealthiest 1% of the U.S. population now holds 71% of all the wealth in the country. There is a similar pattern in…
Jun 21: More Insanity. More Greed. Less Time.
This is a long one because I had a lot to get off my chest in the first half. If you find me boring, just skip to about half way…
Lots of insanity. Lots of greed. not much time.
The strong showing of the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, in the British election came as a tremendous shock to the British news industry. Just about all of them had…
July 14: The big problem that the Irving press won’t touch.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/iqaluit-will-run-out-of-water-1.4156559 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/climate-change-study-1.4157216 http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/hazardous-conditions-caused-by-climate-change-put-arctic-research-study-on-ice-1.3454903 All of these stories are of climate change that IS happening. But the Moncton Times and Transcript has no room for this today. It needed the space…
June 12:a mad, mad world
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-military-latvia-1.4155341 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-troops-latvia-1.4155939 Two views on Canadian troops now in Latvia. Note how the first one, in particular, draws attention to Russian ‘aggression’ in Crimea. In fact, though, this all began…
June 10: A long one. So make yourself a drink and a snack.
In my copy of the current Brunswick News, the there’s a big story about how a local man in making vodka. Then there’s a hot story that a family in…
June 8: A change of style for today.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kabul-spring-offensive-1.4139885 Sorry this one is late. It’s late because the article above reminded me that news, even truthful news, means little without an understanding of the broader picture. The news…