June 15: Going too far…
…that’s the title of today’s editorial. And going too far is exactly what the editorial writer does. The editorial is written, almost certainly deliberately written, to be inflammatory. (I don’t…
Graeme Decarie
June 14: World aghast at double disasters…..
…..but the TandT is the one that got the big story of the day – a fish market has opened at the Moncton airport. In other news, which didn’t make…
June 13: Ignorance? Lying? Corrupted?
These three are a running theme for today’s blog. First, a public policy expert is NOT an expert on what public policy should be. He or she is an expert…
A brief appendix for the blog of June 12….
It is still June 12. I have just returned from several hours of being cold and wet. I did not see a reporter from the Times and Transcript there –…
June 12: best letters to the editor – ever….
The letters to day, are really the best of the TandT. They are full of the material we should be reading on the op ed page and editorial page –…
June 11: Liars
Page one of the TandT has the headline “Report touts shale gas”. It is a hymn of praise to shale gas prepared by (surprise, surprise) the New Brunswick Business Council.…
June 10: N.B. won’t drop front licence plate"
Wow! Talk about a game changer! How do you like them apples, Mr. Irving? You’ll need to get a front licence plate – if you ever come back to live…
June 9: What to do?
There is a reader’s comment at the bottom of yesterday’s post. It asks what we should do to stop Shale gas exploration. First – can it be stopped? Yes, it…
June 8: Words, words, words….
Us human types are forever using words we don’t understand – and, worse, we speak them to other people who don’t understand them either, but whose misunderstanding is a different…
June 7: It’s hard to read this crap every day….
I’ve just noticed that Donald Savoie, at the head of his columns, is referred to as a policy expert. As a description. that is absurd. They never referred to Dr.…
June 6: police hold seminar on cargo thefts; council to vote on land purchase….
..and even more of the news YOU need to know. On p. 1. A Moncton man is happy with his job in film… Oh, and Donald Savoie says “Province must…
May 5: special edition – by idiots – for idiots…
Let’s start with the editorial. Predictably, it’s a hymn of praise to the Native “firm” which SWN has contracted to check its safety procedures in fracking. Obviously, these are eight…
June 4: the fix is in….down and dirty
Lead story – “Policy expert calls for debate” The expert is Donald Savoie who never met an Irving or an fossil fuel executive he didn’t like. He is writing a…
June 3: A very mixed bag…
Just back from a couple of days in PEI. Quite a revelation. I lived there for three years in my early teaching days – and hated it. This time, as…
June 1: Back in the gutter again…
Whoever writes the editorials for the TandT wrote a sort of respectable one yesterday. It was really propaganda for SWN; and it was written to stir up fear and hatred…
May 31: Some good news….
When, a week ago, I saw Michael Sullivan’s first op ed column, I thought – and said – it was a disaster. It tried to define him as a conservative…
May 30: Sign it, you miserable wretch!
For many years, I did editorials on radio. I did not squeak in a high voice in with a heavy Pakistani accent to disguise my voice. I occasionally did one…
May 29: Blog post no. 1,000…
…And I had no idea what I was getting into. The TandT is its normal self, with a big first page photo of a cat up for adoption, and a…
May28: "Metro employers tolerant of tattoos"
That’s front page news for the Irving Press. I cannot think of any serious, half-serious, or even comic newspaper carrying such a story on any page. But the Irving Press…
May 27: poisoned words
Journalists can seem to be very sloppy in their use of words. Sometimes, it’s because there are lots of words they think they understand – but don’t. But it can…