June 12: Enough
A newspaper should reveal the extent of a society’s sorrow. And it should express its own – in opinion columns. But there is a point at which working on emotions…
Graeme Decarie
June 10: The paper took only a few minutes to read today.
Again, TandT reporting on the killings is almost pure sensationalism and emotionalism. We know nothing about how the killer got rifle designed specifically for killing people – and for no…
June 8: Too much…..
I curse myself for writing this on a Sunday evening when I could be doing something more useful like dozing in the sun on the balcony. It’s just that I…
June 7: Sensationalism vs. news
Much of today’s news is about the killing of three police officers, about public sympathy, and the arrest of a man charged with the killings. But for all those pages…
June 5: A day of silence in Moncton….
After killing three policemen and wounding two, a gunman escaped into heavy woods that press into Moncton, often almost into the downtown area. And those woods are connected to the…
June 3: Walking on the edge of insanity….
(I had not intended to write today, but there have been developments….) ..You would never guess it from a reading of the Irving press, but we are close to war…
June 2 oilpipelines are perfectly safe…
So don’t you even bother looking up the recent one in Alberta which broke, spilling a half million liters into a nearby river. But it was a human error. So…
May 31: May is such a wimpy month – glad it’s over.
Unless you get all excited by beer festivals and obvious but useless statements from politicians (A15. St. John MP Rodney Weston – a good, half-page of wasted paper to tell…
May 29: painful…
Norbert, the master of saying nothing, outdoes himself today. We have a provincial financial disaster looming. His answer? “If our politicians won’t lead us, should other citizens step up?” Norbert,…
May 22: predicting the future
Nobody, except the editors of Irving papers, can predict the future with certainty. But there are times when you can be pretty sure. . So let’s take a try at…
May: 25:The biggest blunder in history?
First – a brief announcement. Much as I enjoy writing this blog, it takes hours out of every day, leaving almost no time for anything else The other things I…
May 24: IRock closes.
That’s big news for the Irving press. Front page news. It seems nightclub attendance has been dropping in Moncton, so a number of clubs have closed. Let’s see now. Nightclubs…
May 23: The Irving press couldn’t find much news in the world- so let’s help them
A big problem with New Brunswick politicis, I think, is that politicians get their news from the Irving press. So just to pep up the range of topics for election…
May 22 "Events generate $7M in Metro"
My, it gets tedious to read a paper every day when it has nothing in it. Today, alas, is no exception.The title of this blog is, in fact, today’s banner…
May 21: Shame, shame, shame….
The first page of today’s TandT features a story from a research group. “N.B. health waits a “shame”: report.” It’s about long waits for some medical services, especially in NB.…
May 20: Banner headline, page 1…..
“First-ever Rotary Ribfest promises finger-licking fun.” This is a day of ribs, chicken, soft drinks, beer and bands to raise money for Moncton Headstart, Moncton Youth Residencess and other youth…
May 19: Missed the A2 cartoon a couple of days ago? Worry not.
You’ll find it today, repeated in the usual spot on A2, TheTandT undoubtedly has the sloppiest editing I have ever seen in a newspaper. I was driving past Moncton City…
May 17:How utterly stupid we are!
It’s pretty sobering to look at the tremendous problems we have created for the near future – problems of food supply, climate, wildly overstrained resources. problems of immense overpopulation, problems…
May 16: Worse than usual….
There are two items worth reading in section A. The first is on the front page”Harper unveils national conservation strategy”. At first, that comes as quite a shock. This, after…
May 15: I’m starting this blog on the evening of May 14 because….
…tomorrow looks like another day of more activity than I like. So I thought I’d write something general about news for the opener. Japan is building up its armed forces.…