Nov. 2: It’s a wonderful, wacky world..
Check out p. 1, “New Store prepares for World’s End. It’s a survival store – and I can see it all now. It’s not only possible but probable that there…
Graeme Decarie
Interesting news….
…but not in any of the Irving papers. So let’s start with some interesting stuff. Yesterday, the TandT carried a front page story on how a young girl went from…
Nov. 11: Judy Dallaire’s column..
My farourite columns are the ones that make me think. Jody Dallaire is frequently in that categorty, and she does it well. This one is about the red poppy –…
Oct. 30: Just another day for the TandT
The first page has the not unusual propaganda story to boost the “events centre” which, it seems, will create a pupulation and business boom (while the rest of the world…
Oct. 29:well , this time I DO disagree with Alec Bruce
Mr. Bruce’s column today is on shale gas. He argues that we should develop shale gas because the world is shifting to the use of coal – and that has…
Oct. 28: Nothing much happened in the world…
An amusement park worker was arrested after three people were hospitalized in North Carolina. The lead iten is that a punk poet died A man was arreseted after a Brooklyn…
Oct. 27: A Sunday Sermonette – sort of –
– but we won’t be having any pancake breakfast or pie sale, so it isn’t a religious sermonette. I notice, too, that readership is up today. That’s because yesterday was…
Oct. 26: Fear, Hatred and Hysteria
It was just a little story in yesterday’s paper, so the the full meaning of it didn’t hit me when I read it. Remember how David Alward said the blokade…
Oct. 25: there are two…
count them, two important and well reported stories in Section A. (Okay. It’s not great. But it’s two more than usual.) One is actually on page 1, “Chief calls for…
Oct. 24: Oh, grow up…
Today’s editorial is, I am sure, a sincere one. That’s why is so disheartening to see it is also such a childish one. The editorial writer is disgusted that a…
Oct. 23: Enforce the law!
Damn right. Enforce the law! That’s why we should be closely examining the oil train accident that killed 47 people in Lac Megantic. That’s why Professor Lapierre should be facing…
Oct. 22: The importance of editors
In the news business, the editor is the key person. Editors are the ones who mold kids out of journalism schools into real reporters. Editors are the ones who select…
Oct. 21: Alec Bruce’s column is brilliant…
This must be the first column I have seen in the Irving press that has a sense of the whole story – in this case, of the violence at Rexton.…
Oct. 20: just a few thoughts on a Sunday…
I’m still bothered by a statement that appeared in the TandT two days ago, the day Rexton made world news. It referred to certain, heavily-armed people there as para-militaries. Now,…
Oct. 19: decent reporting…
…lousy editing… As a day’s newspaper rolls out, editors (are supposed to) look it over, see if the stories have any areas that still aren’t sufficiently explained, then go over…
Oct. 18: A society in decay….
It’s too early to decide who was to blame for yesterday’s violence at the anti-shale gas group. The available reporting on it, though quite good, is still vague on some…
Oct. 17: You know it’s a slow day when…..
.. the big story, the page one, banner headline, is about a boy who once got lost in Moncton, and now, fifty years later, has come back for a visit.…
Oct. 16: sigh……
It’s not that there’s nothing in the TandT today. That, after all, is standard practice. They don’t mention that the UN investigator has made it clear we can expect a…
Oct. 15: Unfinished business…
Let’s start with a letter to the editor, “Don’t confuse them with facts.” This is a type of letter that has appeared many times in the Irving press. The writer…
Oct. 14: The biggest news story ever…
I’ve put off writing this for two days. I still can’t work up any joy at getting started on it. Today’s newspaper has one item in it worth reading –…