Dec. 14: A very ugly day.
Eva Bartlett is a Canadian, freelance (independent) journalist who has served many years in the middle east. I don’t know much about her career. I don’t know what her biases…
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Dec. 12: apologies for lateness
I pass lightly over an irving press story that announces a study showing that the provincial government spends too much money on us worthless slobs who are the citizens. There…
December 10: Fake News
We have to face it. Trump and his vicious band of billionaires are not the result of a freak election. This has been coming for a long time. This is…
Dec. 9: Donald Trump – Hero!
And liar. Donald Trump saved a 1100 jobs that were about to be moved by Carrier from Indianapolis and out of the U.S. And he’s not even president yet. Isn’t…
Dec. 7: Hot News Flash!
A first for the irving press. Like many newspapers, section A of the irving press is made up of local news – most of it of no importance whatever –…
Dec. 5: The most contemptible, lying……….
…. piece of journalism I have ever seen. This story is so contemptible, I have put it in its own box. Look below for the THE STINKER in capital letters.…
Dec 3: They said it! The U.S. runs dictatorships for mass murder
On it’s faith page, the irving press has the big story that it and other North American news media have never carried. It’s the story of the indiscriminate murder of…
Dec.2: The world on the edge.
The standoff between protesters and police (and the military) at Standing Rock is front page news in many papers. That’s especially true as severe winter weather closes in, and as…
Nov. 30: The self-blessed sinners of America
Big story on the front page of the irving press. Moncton city councillors voted themselves a pay increase of thousands of dollars. Isn’t it honest and brave of the irving…
Nov. 28: Castro and our contemptible news media.
Today’s irvinig press has a striking example of propaganda presented as news. ( That’s actually quite common in our news services.) This one is a story about Cuban exiles in…
Nov. 26: Castros’ death – and our dead newspapers
Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90. Castro was the one who ended decades of rule in Cuba by some of the most murderous regimes in history, all…
Nov. 25: Enough talk. Time to do.
It’s a pity most readers (who live in the U.S., China, etc.) don’t get my local paper, The Moncton Times&Transcript. Part of a chain (Brunswick News) owned by the richest…
Nov. 23 A worse, worse day.
I’ll try to keep this first bit short; but it might help us to understand what the world is going through. We think of World War One and World Two…
July 21: A bad, bad day.
A reader sent the following item to me – and depressed the hell out of me. – Because I think what it say is true. It doesn’t mean that Hillary…
Nov.19: Trump is inescapable – and seemingly inconsistent.
I’m not a Catholic. But, sometimes, especially when I read the Faith Page of the irving press, I’d swap most of the the Protestant clergy I’ve ever met for one…
Nov. 15: The great American debate – without cause or effect.
One of the characteristics of North American privately owned news media is that they are almost never critical of big business. Of course not. The people who own big business…
Nov. 16: It’s still a little early to see where the world is going.
This blog began as a review of the newspapers of Brunswick News which, like almost all newspapers, operate as propaganda sheets for its owner. The method for Brunswick News to…
Nov. 14: At the going down of the sun, we will remember them…
…..yeah….sure….. This story did not appear in the irving press, of course. It appeared a day ago on CBC news. Canadian troops are in Mosul, the city being attacked by…
Nov. 12: ‘You’ll get used to it’. (World War 2 army song)
“You’ll get used to it.You’ll get used to it.The firsst time is the worst time,Then you’ll get used to it.” The commentary and opinion pages in the irving press are…
Nov 11: The election of no choice.
Norbert Cunningham has, not surprisingly, a stunningly hackneyed commentary on Remembrance Day. It’s all about how Canadians fought to bring peace and freedom to the world. I wish we had.…