Sept. 22: Just a short one for a Sunday….
Do you know of the Atlantic Press Council? It’s a sort of Better Business Bureau. That is, it’s an organization set up, supposely, to police people – in this case,…
Graeme Decarie
Sept, 21: CANADA A NATION OF COFFEE LOVERS….
… that’s a fast-breaking story featured on page 1, and written by crusading reporter Brent Mazerolle. I’ll bet you didn’t know that Canadians like coffee. But nobody can fool young…
Sept. 20: The "know-how" of big business in New Brunswick…
As we can read on p. 32, it does not matter that Professor Lapierre was unqualified in science for the jobs he took on. No. He wasn’t hired for his…
Sept. 19: Ain’t never seen nuthin’ like it – not since Dr. Goebbels was Hitler’s news chief…
First, I’m sorry that my computer is ignoring my paragraph structure, creating long strings of sentences. I’ll try to correct it with more spacing. The big headline on p. 1…
Sept. 18: Park or Ride to CFL game.
That’s the big news, front page story for today. Boy, I’ll bet no other city in the world can offer that that service. And, at that, it’s a modest claim.…
Sept. 16: "Alward confident in last year of mandate"
Who could possibly bloody care? This isn’t news. This isn’t news of any sort And It’s miles from being a headline story. Apparently, Alward said this to the editorial board…
Sept. 16: Almost half of section A is ads…
…and that’s the only half worth reading. Page one features a hap, hap, happy speech by Frank McKenna on how great everything in the world is. It is reported by…
Jan. 15: Hits and misses for the TandT in the coming week.
1. A sure fire story to appear in the TandT is that Canada’a gallant Foreign Affairs Minister spoke out to demand the US get tough on Syria. Gee. That’s strange…
Nov. 14: Let’s skip section A.
Today, the best part (and the most part) of Section A is the car ads. NewsToday leads with a big story about everybody’s friend, Frank McKenna. He says a pipeline…
Sept. 13: Where the tell did Brunswick News dig up a Kurt Peacock?
There he is (almost) every day at the head of the NewsToday section. And I can think of no reason wny. His piece is not a news story. It’s a…
Sept.12: The journalistic culture of lying by omission.
When Obama was first campaigning, he often quoted Martin Luther King’s ringing words of the 1960s to end racial discrimination in the US. The words were “I have a dream…”…
Sept. 11 1/2: This is simply a footnote to the blog for Sept. 1 – but quite a footnote.
The Canadian Transport Safety Board has announced that the crude oil that killed 47 people in Lac Megantic was NOT properly classified. It had been listed to authorities as a…
Sept 11: the propaganda buildup to attack Syria has begun.
First, though, let me pass on a web site which was sent to me by a reader. It’s a superb interview on the decay and collapse of journalism. It’s by…
Sept. 10: And the big story of the day is…
…headline, page 1…Riverview man is new, national president of Ducks Unlimited. Wow! Get your paper fast before this one sells out. Now, I certainly don’t intend to suggest that the…
Sept. 9: Let’s start on a light note because ….
…the rest gets pretty heavy. On Saturday, Aurelle Pare, who always writes an excellent column on health, wrote one on an ear problem called tinnitus. It causes ringing in the…
Sept. 7:…oh, my….oh, my…oh my…
…oh, my… If you will check yesterdays’ blog, you will find a comment from a reader at the foot of it. The note says that yesterday, CBC news reported that…
Sept. 6: The problem of New Brunswick…
It’s all summed up on page 1. “Support rises for Grits, poll suggests.” New Brunswickers, who kicked out the Liberals in the last provincial election are poised to vote them…
Sept. 5: Some real news on p. 1
University “Tuition costs keep soaring: report”. Even as universities grow, they are pricing themselves out of reach. In the US, it has reached the point at which pensioners are still…
Sept. 4: Wow! A tattoo festival..
My apologies for my lack of any paragraph structure. I write this with one. But my Ipad has its own ideas. (My desktop computer, one month and a bit after…
Sept. 2: You can’t go home again…
I was born, and lived most of my life in Montreal. My ancestors from France settled there about 1651. The old road that connected the Decarie farms is still in…