March 4: "You f—ing peasants"
“I am going to f—ing kill you. I will f—ing kill everyone on this flight. They are all f—ing peasants. I could get you all fired in five minutes. I…
Graeme Decarie
March 3: Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and New Brunswick…
…and Spain and Portugal have something in common. All were subject to wild speculation by banks and investors. As well, the banks and investors were using questionable and perhaps illegal…
March 2: A page 1 story and headline that make sense!
A plant that incinerated medical waste in this city has suffered a “devastating” fire. The headline tells us that this poses no environmental danger for us. Okay. That’s an important…
March 1: What is an oligarchy? Words, words, words….
(It’s Sunday. So I took a break from the daily news._ In political discussion, all of us frequently use words we don’t really understand. The result is that the words…
Feb. 28: That’s quite a headline…
“Dieppe’s Lapierre challenges Fredericton mayor over duality”. (This won’t mean much to the majority of readers of this blog because the majority live in the US, Germany, Russia, France, Ukraine…and…
Feb.27: The Moncton Twit and Tinsel
There really is little to talk about in today’s paper. The big story is that students have missed 8 to 13 days of schools this year – and the teachers’…
Feb. 26: playing an old game….
The TandT has yet another Front page, banner headline story that tells us nothing significant about the Larry’s Gulch affair. Sometimes, that’s the only way to kill a story you…
Feb. 25: The song is over – but the melody lingers on…..
The TandT has yet another headline story – a long one – about Larry’s Gulch just packed with information we already had. Well, we know one more bit. Al Hogan…
Feb. 24: Gee! Would the Irving press miss a big story about climate change?
It was a story I first saw in Google News. So I immediately checked the sources it gave – the New York Times and The Guardian. They confirmed it. Funny…
What is ‘news’?
There’s a question I’ve daily had reason to ask as I suffer through the pages of the Irving press. It struck me again, forcibly, as I read section A of…
Feb. 21: Racism and me – and you…..
This isn’t about new news. It’s about old news – that might still be quite new to many readers. Why did the the US fight a war in Iraq when…
Feb.21: Donne-moi un break!
Saturday’s headline is about a man who got sentenced for threatening an RCMP officer. This is the big, flash story of the day? Worse, it’s also a story that has…
Feb. 19: "We’ll meet again, don’t know where don’t know when,…
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day…” (What follows is a sort of comment in story form that explains how we got to where we are. It’s true.…
Feb. 19: People come – oh – somewhere down on the list –
…maybe— Page A 1. “District to study future of two schools….” The Anglophone school district for this region is planning to close two schools. They’re rural schools that, like most…
Feb. 18: paddling in the shallows…
The Feb . 17 page one story in the TandT is “Are we tough enough to outlast winter?” What a juvenile choice for a front page story! For pete’s sake,…
Feb. 17: You know you’re in trouble when…..
….you spend a Sunday afternoon looking out to see your car being buried in a white-out of blowing snow with a powerful tail wind. And next morning, there’s no newspaper…
Feb. 15: What the TandT missed – and some thinking out loud.
Yes, there were stories I didn’t notice in the Irving press. For example, Feb. 14, across Canada, held the annual Valentine’s day marches for missing and/or murdered native women. Then…
Feb. 14: Iimpressive quotations to suck us in.
The TandT edition of Friday, Feb. 13, has a big story about the ranking of New Brunswick’s health care system. Front page stuff. And it comes straight from the expensive…
Feb. 13: Why us humans believe.
This will probably be just a short note. First, a couple of quick points.1. The Irving press still hasn’t mentioned the story of three Muslim young people shot to death…
Feb. 12: It’s tough…..
…to write a blog about a newspaper whose front page story – continued inside for a total of almost a full page – is that local restaurants will be packed…