Sept. 3: I don’t usually write a blog on Wednesday …. but…
… there are big things happening in the world, big things (or one) in the Irving press, and a few bits to tidy up. Let’s start with the beloved Times…
Graeme Decarie
September 3: missing the point – and point….
Front page – read all about it…getcher papers now…. The jolting headline for September was “Students headed back to school tomorrow”. Wow! who would have guessed? Then there’s a big…
August 30: understanding the news.
At last, the front page (for August 31) had a headline that caught my eye. “Metro schools to target absenteeism”. It seems the Moncton area schools are going to deal…
August 28: TandT misses story of the year! August 27 was my birthday.
Otherwise, it was a very ordinary day for the Irving press. Section A had nothing in it. Typical was a front page story that Moncton returning offices are ready for…
August 26:
Foreword – Something has been left out of this election. We’ve heard a bit either for or against shale gas. But there’s a towering set of questions to be answered…
August 23: let’s be nice….
,,,,just for the start. Friday’s regular Whatever section with columns written by high school and university students always has some of the best writing in the paper. All of those…
August 21: a sore thumb, and a world gone mad….
It’s on page C1 of Wednesday’s paper “Rail report targets safety issues.” This is the report of a federal commission to determine the causes of the train derailment that killed…
August 18: Blah….
Monday’s Times and Transcript was, more than usually, pretty flat gruel. Almost all news media have always been propaganda sheets. In the old days, that was evident in the press…
August 16: have a swig of fracking waste water?
In the TandT for August 15, the first page actually has a real news story. “Can cities ban frack water from sewers?” The questions arises because a company in Nova…
August 14: At last, we catch up…
The Thursday paper is easy. It has only one item in it worth reading – on p. D7. Brian Cormier has a column on depression, and it’s a good one.…
August 14, part two: (actually posted on July 15 and catching up with the Tand T of August 12))
Readers who check other sites I mention might have been trying to get Information Clearing House a few days ago – to find it closed. This has been a regular…
August 14: Sorry to be late with this one….
real life keeps getting in the way.Monday’s paper, section A, p. 1. Big story of the day, “Metro cyclists, drivers have room to grow…” I have no idea what the…
Aug. 9: The Blame Game…
First, something that didn’t make the news in the Irving press. There’s been something of a revolt at the New York Times. Reporters and editors demanded of the owners that…
August 7:A pause to revisit August 5
I had a lot to cover in the last blog – so an important topic got lost. It’s Tuesday’s paper, p. A1 (NB’s natural resources debate rages). It’s on the…
August 5: Politicians, news media, and the glorification of war…..
It begins with Brent Mazerolle writing the headline story on the centenary of World War 1. I’ll skip the small errors. (Such as – Canada was at war when Britain…
August 2: As my father would say,…
“….it’s enough to make a saint swear.” The Friday edition of the TandT has a page one story on the party leaders of New Brunswick,and their views on job creation.…
July 31: Thoughts of childhood….
I grew up in the North End of Montreal, not far from where Little Italy was, and where the community’s church still serves. Mafia leader Rizutto recently put it in…
July 29: It’s noon – and my morning paper is still not here…
……so let me start with a sermonette on two stories that go back several days, and were quite uncritically reported on.I’m starting it in a religious context; but don’t be…
July 26: Goguen gets a free, political ad….
Check p. A4 of Friday’s TandT, “N.B. wharves get funds.” The whole story is simply a prepared statement by Robert Goguen. It’s a pretty boring statement as in “Our government…
July 24:"Metro’s first Tim’s to be rebuilt"
Yes. it’s on the front page. I mean, this is big. After all, the site is the same one as the first Tim’s ever built outside Ontario. A couple of…