July 6: church and state
I write this dated for Saturday, but I’m writing it late on a sweltering, Friday late afternoon. I shall be posting it on Saturday morning, along with another post for…
Graeme Decarie
July 5: Letter to the Editor: Tears and Laughter.
Today’s letter from from a Jim Cougle of Fredericton is a gem. “Savoie columns showed courage” Damn right. Savoie’s column showed enormous courage in the face of the Irvings ‘…
July 4: disappointment (partly) eased…
I won’t waste much time talking about most of today’s Times and Transcript because most of is the usual trivia and propaganda. Note the headliner for section A. “Health officials…
July 3: a crashing disappointment…
.. but first the small stuff.Our newspaper does not have the latest news about an item it has been shoving down our throats almost daily for the last several years…
July 2: Just a short blog today….
…as I get to see two of my daughters and my granddaughters as they return to the shore for a couple of weeks. – and then I race back in…
Juuly 1: awful, awful, awful….
A sample of awfulness is the big international news, “Syrian fighting has cost billions”. Gee! I thought it was being paid for by trading baseball cards. The big, front-page story,…
June 30: Sunday thoughts……
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ The above is a superb web site for anyone interested in the world of big business, and its impact on our world. Mr. Roberts has been a major figure…
June 29: ..a story that wasn’t important enough to make the Times and Transcript….
The kids I went to school with were a mixed lot, all from the crowded, jammed together housing of north end Montreal. There were us English-speaking kids of mixed French…
June 28: Dear editorial staff and owner of all the Irving Press – Wunnerful, Wunnerful, Wunnerful News!
You know all you editorial people, how you’ve been working so hard to give us faithful readers both sides of the shale gas debate? And how you’ve done such a…
June 27: "Clouds can be a sign of rain: prof"
That’s so true. I’m a prof so, of course, I speak as an expert (just like prof Savoie) when I say clouds can be a sign of rain. Curiously, the…
June 26: Mr. Editorial Writer – ignorant? stupid? lying? All three?
It’s a bizarre editorial even without the possibilities of ignorance, stupidity or lying. It’s an editorial about all the advantages for us in the declining value of the Canadian dollar.…
June 25: mea culpa…
sorry to be late today. I had an appointment with a doctor. (I’m approaching that age at which one’s social circle is made up largely of doctors, undertaker salespeople and…
June 24: What’s to say?
“Seismic testing not new in N.B.” That’s a “read it while it’s hot” front-page story in today’s TandT. And it flunks Journalism 101. 1. Nobody has ever said seismic is…
June 22: Why?
the big story, front page special report covers the best part of a whole page. Why? It says almost nothing. This is essentially a feel good story about how the…
June 21: Ain’t nuthin’ t’see folks. Just keep movin’…..
We won’t talk about anything in the news section. There’s nothing there that you couldn’t find on google news – or on a radio or TV newscast – yesterday. And…
June 20: How not to write a news story…
It’s on page 1. The page is well chosen. This is far the biggest story in today’s newspaper. The story is that a majority of New Brunswickers have grave doubts…
June 19: A dynamite headline…..
….I iwonder if the editor who wrote that page one headline understands the whole meaning of it. “Moncton planning for climate change effects”. (Actually, it’s only planning for some effects,…
June 18: Well, well, well…..
The letter below was sent to Letters to the Editor of the TandT over a week ago. But it has yet to appear. It is from doctors in Sackville experessing…
June 17: sometimes, it’s hard to know what to say…
In my early days of TV, I knew a producer at the station who was sent to cover a strike. When he got there, nothing was happening. The strkers were…
The Moncton Times@Transcript – Good and Bad 2013-06-16 12:33:00
I’m starting this blog on Saturday because tonight the CBC will release the names of some thousands of people who have hidden bank accounts overseas. That gives the eagle-eyed, two-fisted…