June 16: Queen furious as Camilla cheats on Charles…
Who could possibly care? And yet, many people do. Supermarkets sell thousands of these brainless gossip mags at the checkout counters every day. So, to find out the really important…
Graeme Decarie
June 15: The revolution is almost over.
It began in 1952 with US Senator Joseph McCarthy who waved a paper in front of audiences to say it was a list of over 200 communist spies who were…
June 14: self-indulgence, odds and ends, and other stuff
Am I capitalist, socialist or communist? None of the above. Politics doesn’t start with labels or with political ideologies of any sort. It starts with moral principles, with a sense…
June 13: A very long blog…
…made necessary by my response to a reader. It was too long to go as a direct reply to the question. So you’ll find it at the end of this…
June 12: Doesn’t anybody at Irving press ask questions?
We were told that 20 RCMP officers have asked for transfers out of the district. The implication is that they requested transfers because three police officers were killed a year…
June 11:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/ten-reasons-the-tpp-is-no_b_7536770.html?utMove to Inbox The site above refers to the massive trade agreements that Harper is involved in. The news media are not getting or giving much information on them. And…
June 10: The story that never met the high standards of the Irving press.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/opinion/paul-krugman-errors-and-lies.html?ref=topics&_r=0 The site above is worth a look. The New York Times may have declined – a lot. But it’s still a big notch ahead of the Irving press. And…
June 9: A few points of journalistic integrity..
Read the lead story on p.1 about how a “noted economist and public policy analuyst” says we must pay higher taxes and perhaps cut services to avoid New Brunswick going…
June 7: My, oh my, what a wonderful day.
My cat has just walked across my keyboard and destroyed a blog I had almost finished. And it’s the most important one I’ve ever done. I’ll start again – but…
June 7: Much of what we believe in the news is based on what we believe in history.
We believe that we are good people. We believe that from the versions of our history we get in education, on TV, and in movies. Ever read a history book…
June 6: And the big story of the day is…
….JDIrving is reneging on a sweetheart deal he had with the city of St. John. It has an Irving property on the waterfront that JDIrving got for, of course, a…
June 5: And yet more…
It was 1989. I was in my office when I heard about Marc Lepine who had just entered a college and shot and killed 14 women, and wounded 14 men.…
June 4: As I expected…
…Over five pages of section A, including all of the editorial and commentary pages, are about one year ago in Moncton when three mounties were killed. It’s presented as a…
June 3: As expected….
…the Irving press does not have what are surely the two, biggest stories of the day. The first one is a story from a source I would have normally have…
June 2: Lord, love a duck.
Banner headline, page 1. “Events centre still in holding pattern”. Translation – “nothing has happened”. And so we get a big story on the front page, telling us that nothing…
June 1: Well, it’s after 1:30 p.m…..
…and I still don’t have my morning paper. Boy, talk about leaving it to big business get things done efficiently. I haven’t seen a morning paper before 11 a.m. since…
May 31: No paper today. But things to talk about.
Some days ago, I promised to take a look at why New Brunswickers are so passive in matters of public affairs. And, trust me, they are passive. They don’t know…
May 30: ?????? What is news?
Think about that word.News. It doesn’t mean sentimentality. It doesn’t mean nostalgia. It doesn’t mean reminiscence. Note the first three letters of it – NEW. It’s about something very, very…
May 29: Why , oh, why?
The big news from our editors who feel the pulse of the world and of our reporters is that a city smoking ban is getting a mixed reaction from bar…
May 28: The bottom of the pit? Probably not.
There is only one item worth noting in today’s news section A. It’s an error in the front page headline.“Involve students in dress code talks, says teachers association.” Did you…