April 22: Lots of comments…
…and I will answer them. But I’m running (behind) on a frantic schedule. I had no idea this is what retirement would be like. _____________________________________________________________I guess Ukraine is no longer…
Graeme Decarie
April 21: Spreading ignorance – deliberately
(In advance, I have an apology. I have printed all comments that were sent to me but, for some reason, several from yesterday disappeared. I discovered that when I tried…
April 20: Just thinking out loud
This may be short; I feel the need of a break. However, there’s an element in the Ukrainian crisis that news media have not touched on. Why should we get…
April 19: Sh! Baby’s sleeping…
What could be the biggest crisis in world history has taken a turn for the worse in the last couple of days. But not in the Irving press. In the…
April 18: Journalism and ethics
Yesterday, I gently disagreed with Norbert on the quality of BBC news; (he regarded it as a world leader.) Last night, by chance, I came across the BBC report on…
April 17: No foreign news…doh-dee-doh
In the midst of the worst, international crisis we have seen in 50 years – maybe ever – the Tand T has not a single word of foreign news in…
April 16: It starts on p.1….
Go to the bottom of page 1 of Section A. “Proposed high school changes are discussed”. I have spent my life in education. So I read that rather long story.…
April 15: Never start a story in the middle….
That title is for a little later on. First, the oustanding features of today’s paper…….uh…well….oustanding…uh… Page A 7 has a happy story, “Opportunity exists to trim civil service even more:statistics”…
April 14: Z-Z-Z-Z-…
It must take very special minds to produce, year after year, a newspaper that says nothing at all. Today, I read the paper through breakfast, with nothing to do on…
April 13: Brave New World
Last summer, during the shale gas protests, we were informed that the Moncton police had been issued an armoured personnel carrier. (Well, they had to tell us. Armoured vehicles are…
April 12:When the real headline is the bottom line.
There’s a curious story that gets a banner headline on page of today’s TandT. “B.B changes handling of young offenders” It tells how young offenders have been held in open…
April 11: A two-page obituary
I’m sure that Jim Flaherty, former minister of finance, was a worthy and loved man. But most of us just get a few words ending in “missed by all”. With…
April 10: The impact of our news media….
Check out in the letter of the day in Letters to the Editor. It has ever piece of illogic and myth about Ukraine I have seen in our press. For…
April 9: Lies and more lies….
Yesterday, I opened with the report by Seymour Hersh, a superb journalist, that Obama had planned to go to war against Syria, a war set to begin on August 29.…
April 8: You can just picture the scene….
…..a young man goes to journalism school to fulfil his childhood dream of becoming a reporter, digging for stories, getting at the truth. As well as journalism, he studies political…
April 7: Of Malaysian flights…..
NewsToday has yet another nothing story on the disappearance of a Malaysian airliner. That’s a major story for the day in national and international affairs. Among the others – a…
April 5: General Indifference
There’s a category for news stories that are not news at all. For some reason, they are called “general interest stories” – which, confusingly, means they are of no interest…
April 4: I tried, I really did….
….to find something worth commenting on in Section A. At last, on page 8, I found something. It’s the best I can do. “Senior dog left abandoned…..” It wasn’t the…
April 3: …sigh……..
…we have a provincial election coming up. What are the crucial problems we face?1.A wild and destructive economic system that each year makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.…
April 2: Watch your schools…
….the Irving press is on the warpath – and that means the Irvings have something in mind.but first…..__________________________________________________________________________Page A1 has another winner of the Who Would Have Guessed? trophy. “Plow…