May 27:The best is the cartoon page…
Oh, no, I don’t mean the cartoon page in the Irving press. The days of cartoons that were both funny and insightful ended years ago,and after only a brief life.…
Graeme Decarie
May 26: Lazy, cheap, and unethical – Our very own Irving press.
The front page headline is about a commentary that has been submitted to the newspaper, but not yet published. It will, of course, be published, perhaps tomorrow. So why is…
May 25: What can words say?
Netanyahu yesterday thanked Secstat Kerry for the US role in killing a big meeting of Middle East leaders to discuss de-nuclearizing the whole region. How nice of Mr. Kerry. Meanwhile,…
May 24: catching up.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/03/the-death-of-american-universities/ A reader sent me the article above. It really caught my eye because, some twenty yeas ago I was asked by the chairman of a board of university governors…
May 23: Fireman thanked for saving dog..
…..Yes, it’s a heart-warming story. But it is not a front page, lead story in a serious newspaper. It is, however, a striking example of how the Irving press uses…
May 22: For a change of pace…
…I’m going to start by arguing with one of the student columnists, Isabelle Agnew. She’s a good writer and an intelligent columnist; so she’s worth arguing with. 1. Just about…
May 21: If you tell a lie, make it a big one..
…people are too smart to fall for the small ones. New Brunswick’s Liberal government wants to privatize more of our government services, like health care. The reason is the old…
May20: The big push is on…
Today, the front page headline is that Premier Gallant has called a meeting with mayor of Moncton and ta-da. ,member of parliament Goguen to have “sit-down” meeting (as opposed to…
May 19: Let’s get serious
First, a well-deserved acknowledgement that I forgot to make. Saturday’s Faith page had a sermonette by Brett Annington who is chaplain at University of New Brunswick. This is what a…
May 18: Apologies
A few days ago, my computer passed on and went to a better place. So I missed a few days. So let’s just take a quick look in the Times…
May 15: Blah!
It’s hard to write about a paper that keeps sliding downhill. I understand the need to cut costs in print journalism as the competition for advertising gets more difficult. But…
May 24:
A1 has a story about the valiant defence of a high school girl and her father, part of the struggle against those who deny female rights by refusing to allow…
May 13: Let’s skip most of today’s Irving press.
There really isn’t much there. A full half of A8, for example, is a story about a Moncton man who will be cheering for Mexico (because he was born there)…
May 12: Enough!
One can get fed up writing every day about the trivia, blunders, lies, propaganda, sloppiness and general incompetence of the Irving press. For today, I’ll talk about just one column.…
May 11: Free Ad! (I have no shame.)
A friend visits me now and then to point a video camera at my face and ask me questions. I, modestly, reply. And he posts them in YouTube. The most…
May 10: Our universities are in deep, financial trouble…
…..and that isn’t the worst of it. Almost all university teachers have no training in teaching. None whatever. That not only means they don’t know to teach a class. They…
May 9: "Knives, sharp objects regularly seized at Moncton courthouse"
So bloody what? At an airport, my tiny penknife with its two inch blade was seized so that I couldn’t use it to take control of an aircraft with with…
May 8: Was Smirky Goguen lying?
Yesterday, the TandT carried a story from our normally dormant federal member of parliament, Smirky Goguen. He says the city has already received funding from Ottawa for the events centre.…
May 7:Remember how Moncton mourned the deaths of three police?
They were killed by a man using a combat-style rifle (high rate of fire, large capacity magazine). It was a rifle of no hunting value. (If you miss a deer…
May 6: Forget the Irving press…
—-at best, and for all its reporters, editors, commentators, it’s a five minute read. And most of that five minutes is just annoying for its evidence of laziness, incompetence, and…