March 28: I didn’t comment on the budget because…
…1. It was a budget that showed no understanding of what has been learned over the past century about how to deal with a recession.2. It does virtually nothing to…
Graeme Decarie
March 27: Jolly good fellows….
I used to speak some fifty or sixty times a year to various groups, mostly in Montreal. Among them were Rotarians. Dear fellows.There was always manly back-slapping, chaffing, smiles, joy…
March 25:The editor and the news.
Newspapers rise and fall on the qualities and abilities of their editors. Editors not only instruct new reporters on the rules of the trade, of reportorial writing (and journalistic ethics),…
March 25: somtimes, I’m….
….unpardonably slow to connect the dots. The pieces were all there – Irving’s declaration of being in coalition with the government following his great conference on the economic future of…
March 24:Understanding the news without reading it…
Some forty years ago (my, I’m getting old) a very prominent Canadian politician to me he never read the newspapers His friends assured me that was the truth. I still…
March 23: missing news – and half wit headlines…
For weeks, while most of Canada has been ignoring it, the Quebec government has been brewing a massive list of amendments to its language legislation – amendments which virtually make…
March 22: Even the budget is a zero
Last night, a good fairy flew into my room, hovered for some minutes, and we chatted. But I’ll discuss that at the end._______________________________________________________________________________The best that can be said of the…
March 21: Bo-ring…
Page A1 has a story headed “CFL, other events are economic catalysts”. Now, a head, as it’s called in the trade, is supposed to tell what the story is about.…
March 20: recovery…..
My computer is now working again. Sorry about yesterday’s mess. So let’s start with what I wanted to say yesterday. Harper and Alward are very, very upset. Big business is…
March 19: The Pope
(This blog is a bit of a mess because I’m using an Ipad, and my lessons on it don’t begin until tomorrow. It has absolutely refused to let me correct…
March18: Damn it, Norbert….
…will you please stop pronouncing on subjects you know nothing about. You have never studied education. You have never taught a day in your life. It is possible you have…
March 17: Riverview to build memorial to 1950…
..yes, I forgot to mention this in yesterday’s blog. Developers have bought a Riverview golf course (presumably because it isn’t making money), and will convert it into a lovely garden…
March 16: Trivia day
There isn’t much to say about the TandT today because there isn’t much in it. So let’s start with an editorial blunder on p. A1. Imagine a headline which said…
March 15: Today’s winners?
The editorial and op ed pages are the winners. In fact, the news pages are so far back, they have yet to cross the finish line. Look, I yield to…
March 14: There are no depths……
…to which the Moncton Times and Transcript will not crawl in obedience to the the wishes of its master. It was bad enough when it butchered a report of a…
March 13: The reason why…
It was never clear why the US launched a war on Afghanistan. After 911, the Taliban offered to surrender Osama bin Laken to an international court. That fully met its…
March 12: on a positive note—-
—let’s start with how foreign news in a newspaper should be handled, starting with a few principles. 1. Reporting them as is done now is largely a waste of time.…
March 11: Not a bad day for the TandT…..
—-boring, bland, lots of nothing about nothing. But not really, actively bad. Probably the biggest story of of the day is that Eva Longoria (a famous person of whom I…
March 10: Those whom the gods would destroy…
…they first make mad. It happens to all of us. Whenever by good luck or by birth or by our living at the right moment in history we are doing…
March 9: Money does not die…….
….or disappear. The money that existed in our prosperous days still exists. What has happened is that it has for some years now been shuffled around so that a very…