May 5: The meaning of ethics in journalism.
“Events centre needed, council told”“He spoke as an ordinary citizen,…” But, we learn, he was not an ordinary citizen. He was a (drumroll) real estate salesman. And we are told…
Graeme Decarie
May 4: An amazingly weak edition.
The lead story, reasonably enough, is about the government cut to daycare subsidies. But we see it only as a financial problem. In fact, it is a much deeper issue…
May 2: slim pickin’s
Section A has only two stories that caught my attention. One was about the anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic, the one theatre of war that was dominated by…
May 1: Little of anything in the Irving press today…
so skip most of section A – except for A1 “Deer-car collisions taking toll.” Apparently record numbers of deer are being killed on our highways this year. It’s partly because…
April 30: Wow! two big stories about an economist!
I mean, you know, economists are experts. This one say that business needs more freedom to grow but, gee, rules and regulations get in the way. And, goodness, if business…
April 29: When I was a child, we used newspapers as toilet paper.
The Irving press starts out as toilet paper. The “events centre” push starts on page 1 with the story that a downtown business group supports it. Beside it is the…
April 28: a very confused world.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-baltimore-freddie-gray-20150427-htmlstory.html The above is a report from the Los Angeles Times (and other sources) on the rioting in Baltimore. It wasn’t important enough to make today’s Irving press – though…
April 27:Blah
It’s hard to write every day on a paper that usually has nothing to say. Big headline – “Downtown centre funding to be based on ‘evidence,’ says minister. (Actually, the…
April 26: Stray thoughts on a Sunday – and a change of pace.
I didn’t mention the Faith page yesterday.It was just too depressingly bad. The churches’ activities are the usual card parties and spaghetti dinners. Leave your brains at the door, folks.…
April 25: Good for Brent Mazerolle
“All Moncton schools to go under review”. That’s the headline on A1. And, like every such report I’ve seen in this province, it’s all about costs and efficiency as if…
April 24: why we ain’t real smart…
In 25 years of radio, TV and print media, I was never once asked to cover or comment on a hockey game. I guess that just makes sense. I mean,…
April 23: A very mixed bag…
On A1, “Fracking review terms released by Grits”. The Liberal government has appointed a commission to examine any possible dangers in carrying out fracking. They don’t tell us a whole…
April 22: The Big Picture
There was a time when the greatest dream of North American women was to be swept up by an arab riding on a galloping, white steed that would take them…
April 21: Justice Triumphs
Three minor figures in the Lac Megantic train disaster have been criminally charged in the case of the oil train explosion that killed 47 people in Lac Megantic. One is…
April 20: How could they be so stupid?
Early yesterday, a major news story broke in plenty of time to make today’s newspapers. But, apparently, nobody at Irving press realized it was important. As usual, all the world…
April 19: A short one…
….I hope. There are two sites I use a good deal for news. Neither is perfectly reliable. I’ve never even heard of a news source that is perfectly reliable. If…
April 18: 500 years in one post.
It was yesterday’s editorial that put me in a bad mood – that smug, patronizing, asinine comment about how we mustn’t tax the rich because if we do, they might…
April 17: Another stinker.
But, to start on a happy note, read section C4, ‘Big Sister Shares Open Letter with Words of Advice for Little Sister’. This is by Isabelle Agnew, one of the…
April 16: The worst yet….
….I didn’t think it possible. The big story is that premier Gallant gave a speech to big business leaders at Canadian Club in Toronto – and he spoke from the…
May 15: Section A is village news.
So is most of section B. This is a serious problem for both Moncton and New Brunswick. We have a population here that is miserably uninformed – and is now…