Jan 19: lots and lots of stuff that wasn’t in your news
Readers outside New Brunswick won’t understand the pain of this. In today’s Irving press, among the front page stories are 1. a man driving his truck through the ice crashed…
Graeme Decarie
Jan 19: lots and lots of stuff that wasn’t in your news
Readers outside New Brunswick won’t understand the pain of this. In today’s Irving press, among the front page stories are 1. a man driving his truck through the ice crashed…
Jan. 17: re Trump – a promise
.I shall try to avoid mentioning Donald Trump as much as I can. It’s going to be tough. The news media all over the world are obsessed with him. But…
Jan. 17: re Trump – a promise
.I shall try to avoid mentioning Donald Trump as much as I can. It’s going to be tough. The news media all over the world are obsessed with him. But…
Jan. 15:: facing reality.
Sorry for missing yesterday. I’ve been up to my ears in packing for a move.I’m also puzzled about comments. I haven’t had any for almost a month. I think my…
Jan. 15:: facing reality.
Sorry for missing yesterday. I’ve been up to my ears in packing for a move.I’m also puzzled about comments. I haven’t had any for almost a month. I think my…
Jan.12: A long one. Sorry.
Get used to it. Last night, I watched interviews with U.S. senators and other notables. The (unintentional) message was clear. Get used to it. American democracy is over; and it’s…
Jan.12: A long one. Sorry.
Get used to it. Last night, I watched interviews with U.S. senators and other notables. The (unintentional) message was clear. Get used to it. American democracy is over; and it’s…
Jan. 11: Credit Where Credit is Due…
The commentary pages are for informed discussion of important issues. But this is rarely the case in the irving press. What we more commonly get is uninformed rant, propaganda, pointless…
Jan. 9: The One-Liner as political programme.
Just a brief look at New Brunswick’s propaganda sheet. The commentary page has a column to tell us that we don’t have a climate problem. The writer says it’s not…
Jan. 7: A bad day for the world.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/global-warming-hiatus-never-happened-say-climate-scientists-1.3922378 The story above is rather an important one. Climate change is happening; and the results will be quite terrible for all life on earth. But the above story was…
Jan. 5 blog – a mixed bag.
Today’s blog will deal less with news than with my reactions to it – and with some very frank talk. A good deal of it will be local news –…
Jan.3: Laughing so I won’t cry.
In an idle moment, I called up ‘Trump twitter’ . It’s worth a read because these are the thoughts of a president who has no political philosophy whatever. To him,…
January 1: No forecast – just fear.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israelis-won-t-miss-being-lectured-by-obama-and-kerry-derek-stoffel-1.3915146 Usually, any criticism of news media that I have is directed against the privately owned news media. I have no apology for that. They are far, far the worst…
Dec. 28: forgive me for getting annoyed.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot This isn’t the usual blog. I hate writing this. I’ve been staring at my computer to decide how to tackle it. It’s about the greatest crisis of our time.…
Nov. 23. Merry Christmas. Anyway.
It was a cold day about noon, and the snow was driving hard as I walked, head down against the wind, along the sidewalk. Then I noticed a man. He…
Dec. 22: Wow! a big change in the irving press!
For some time now, the irving press commentary page has featured the opinions of the propagandists who write for The Fraser Institute. But lately, it has been featuring the propagandists…
Dec.19: the end of patience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCwCgthp_E https://southfront.org/new-data-more-than-100-us-uk-israeli-french-turkish-advisers-were-allowed-to-leave-aleppo/ Two readers sent me the items above – and I thank them because I would certainly never have found these in our mainline news media. We’ll start with…
Dec. 17: Escape the trials of the world – read a Faith Page.
On this Saturday, I get relief from the empty pages of the irving press by turning to its Faith Page. The is a page dominated by columnists who are Christian…
Dec. 16: Trump – Same Old Same Old.
Today’s irving press has an inspiring ‘Commentary’ from a propaganda house – Atlantic Institute of Market Studies. Just two days ago it had a major news story on the same…