Banner headline in The Moncton Times and Transcript. Top news of the day. There will be a 'Canadian Football League game in Moncton just six and a half months from now. Boy. Thanks for letting us know in time to - whatever...
Second lead story: summer will come again. (For real. You can count on it.)
Third lead story: Bantam hockey team is getting a free trip to the Yukon. And that wraps up everything important that happened in or close to metro Moncton.
The kicker, a guest column opposite the editorial page by-----ta da-----Maxime Bernier. Remember him?
He was Harper's Minister of Foreign Affairs who became a minister largely because he was the Conservative from Quebec with the most votes - and Harper needed to boost the Conservative image in Quebec. He promptly made his mark as a blunder, loosely slipping confidential information to the press, promising a country the loan of aircraft Canada didn't have, referring to Harper as fat and not very bright, and having a very public girlfriend with a specacular bust much of which he insisted must be visible when he escorted her to state events. (She later said he had a made a deal with her that her role was to boost his image as a very virile kind of guy.
One night, he forgot a case of important and highly secret papers at her apartment. They concerned a soon-to-be-held and top secret NATO meeting. After some weeks, she became concerned about it, and contacted foreign affairs. That was just about the time journalists discovered that she had a long history with Hell's Angels.
This man with little brain, vast ego, bad judgement and childish behaviour got a column in The Moncton Times writing on Canadian economy and politics of which, among other topics, he knows nothing. Why?
The column is from a speech he delivered to the Atlantic Institute of Marketing Studies. The owners of The Moncton Times like the Atlantic Institute of Marketing Studies. And The Times editors know how to sit up when they want a biscuit.
Why did AIMS invite Bernier in particular to speak? Because they like to listen to people who think just like them.
Alas, there was bad news for the eager audience at AIMS. His ex-girlfriend did not attend the speech. However, I hear he's thinking of using blow-up, rubber dolls in the future. If he gets invited back to speak to AIMS, then we can expect the Moncton Times and Transcript to cover it the splendied way it covers pond hockey, we'll get three pages of coverage with fifteen photos. Front page, too. Right up there with hot stories about the next hockey game, and how working in a casino is fun.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Feb. 7: The Moncton Blah
Today's issue of The Moncton Times was just boring. The major story was all of two and a half pages of text and fifteen pictures of a weekend of pond hockey. The pictures were nothing more than snapshots of whatever was there to snap a shot of. It you enjoy looking at nondescript family photo albums of strangers, you'll love this.
There were also photos of partying through the Super Bowl game at the casino. Another free ad. (The Packers' win also made front page, which was surely a waste since anybody who cared knew all about it before the paper went to press.)
Then there was a flash that some celebrity named Garth Hunt is 68 today; and a tittilating headling that "Pregnancy and running can go hand in hand." Alas; there were no photos.
Only two items stood out.
One was the (deservedly) front page story of the collapse of the roof at Moncton Headstart. The other was the usual waste of paper on the editorial. Again, the editorial writer was making suggestions about education - though it is by now obvious that nobody at the Moncton Times and Transcript knows anything about the subject. It was also about provincial budgeting, a subject over which a similar ignorance seems to reign.
We now have had at least two editorials insisting the District Education Councils should take over the whole responsibility for maintenance of safe school buildings. (This would include the DEC for district two, which earlier editorials had accused of being incompetent.)
A DEC is an elected group, voluntarily giving up an evening once a month for a meeting, and giving up many hours a month of their own time to keep up on its work. Most members also have jobs and families. The idea that they should give up even more time to do a job for which most are not qualified is absurd.
As well, and this may come as a suprise at the Moncton TandT, the DECs have no power to spend money on anything unless Fredericton says it can. How can a a DEC be responsible for maintenance which it has no power to set the budget for maintenance?
Maybe what's really needed is for The Moncton Times to rethink what a small city newspaper is and what an editor does in this age of radio and TV and newspaper and web news from all over the world. As it is, it's hard to see any need for a paper like The Moncton Times except to provide propaganda and free ads.
There were also photos of partying through the Super Bowl game at the casino. Another free ad. (The Packers' win also made front page, which was surely a waste since anybody who cared knew all about it before the paper went to press.)
Then there was a flash that some celebrity named Garth Hunt is 68 today; and a tittilating headling that "Pregnancy and running can go hand in hand." Alas; there were no photos.
Only two items stood out.
One was the (deservedly) front page story of the collapse of the roof at Moncton Headstart. The other was the usual waste of paper on the editorial. Again, the editorial writer was making suggestions about education - though it is by now obvious that nobody at the Moncton Times and Transcript knows anything about the subject. It was also about provincial budgeting, a subject over which a similar ignorance seems to reign.
We now have had at least two editorials insisting the District Education Councils should take over the whole responsibility for maintenance of safe school buildings. (This would include the DEC for district two, which earlier editorials had accused of being incompetent.)
A DEC is an elected group, voluntarily giving up an evening once a month for a meeting, and giving up many hours a month of their own time to keep up on its work. Most members also have jobs and families. The idea that they should give up even more time to do a job for which most are not qualified is absurd.
As well, and this may come as a suprise at the Moncton TandT, the DECs have no power to spend money on anything unless Fredericton says it can. How can a a DEC be responsible for maintenance which it has no power to set the budget for maintenance?
Maybe what's really needed is for The Moncton Times to rethink what a small city newspaper is and what an editor does in this age of radio and TV and newspaper and web news from all over the world. As it is, it's hard to see any need for a paper like The Moncton Times except to provide propaganda and free ads.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Feb. 5: Big News in The Moncton Times and Transcript.
Big, big, big. The lead on the front page, once again, is the local hockey team which didn't do anything except lose a game. But top, left side of the page appears to be a permanent spot for what is really an ad to draw fans. In fact, the Rivalty Cup for which the two teams were contending counts number of fans in attendance as one of its measures of who get to win the cup. Can anybody beat that for a hokey hockey rule?
Under the circumstances, then, it was curious the column didn't mention the turnout. As well as the importance of the number of attending fans in the decision of who gets the cup, but this is the city which wants to borrow 84 million dollars to build a bigger stadium. I can only wonder at that on the basis of the one game I have seen. The stadium was, at most, three quarters full - but only because almost half of the audience was non-paying. And this was a much hyped game, also for the Rivalry Cup.
But that sort of hyping and covering up is pretty standard stuff for The Moncton Times and Transcript. Much more distasteful is a "news story" on p. A3. It pumps up the adrenalin over a competition between five schools to see which can read the most books within five weeks. Each school sets its own goal.
This is the old business belief that competition really gets kids going; and if only schools were run like businesses, kids would really learn.
1. Big businesses don't compete. When did you last see Irving fighting to hold on to its share of NB oil business or NB forests?
2. Competition produces one winner and thousands of losers. Some incentive. That sort of thing works for students who already do well in school. It doesn't for most of the others. That emphasis on competition is a major reason why American schools have been dropping so far in world standing over the last several decades.
3. Learning reading means to learn to love and understand it. Competition does nothing for either of those. Some children, probably many children, simply get turned off at being forced into a game they know they can't win. I know their feeling. It happened to me in high school.
But the T&T report on the contest is written in the breathless, gaga style used for local hockey games (or like another free ad on p. 1, the opening of a dating service in town.)
So, why would a newspaper run a story on a reading contest that probably does more damage than good? And why is it so lavish in its praise?
1. The Moncton Times and Transcript is the sponsor of the contest. This is a free ad for the paper, telling us how public-spirited it is. Frankly, I would prefer it they would restrict their activity to just one thing they don't know how to do. Stick with reporting.
2. It supports the campaign by big business across North America that our schools are in terrible trouble, and can be saved onlyby adopting business methods (as in competition), and by degrees of privatization.
The owners of the Moncton Times can be happy their newspapers don't have competition. (Hey! If they think competition is such a cure-all, why don't the owners of the Moncton Times encourage other newspapers to start up in NB?)
Question for the day - Why does the front page have a free ad for a dating service disguised as a news story? I understand it for the hockey team The owners of The Moncton Times and the Moncton Hockey team are pretty close. Is it one of their buddies who opened the dating service?
Under the circumstances, then, it was curious the column didn't mention the turnout. As well as the importance of the number of attending fans in the decision of who gets the cup, but this is the city which wants to borrow 84 million dollars to build a bigger stadium. I can only wonder at that on the basis of the one game I have seen. The stadium was, at most, three quarters full - but only because almost half of the audience was non-paying. And this was a much hyped game, also for the Rivalry Cup.
But that sort of hyping and covering up is pretty standard stuff for The Moncton Times and Transcript. Much more distasteful is a "news story" on p. A3. It pumps up the adrenalin over a competition between five schools to see which can read the most books within five weeks. Each school sets its own goal.
This is the old business belief that competition really gets kids going; and if only schools were run like businesses, kids would really learn.
1. Big businesses don't compete. When did you last see Irving fighting to hold on to its share of NB oil business or NB forests?
2. Competition produces one winner and thousands of losers. Some incentive. That sort of thing works for students who already do well in school. It doesn't for most of the others. That emphasis on competition is a major reason why American schools have been dropping so far in world standing over the last several decades.
3. Learning reading means to learn to love and understand it. Competition does nothing for either of those. Some children, probably many children, simply get turned off at being forced into a game they know they can't win. I know their feeling. It happened to me in high school.
But the T&T report on the contest is written in the breathless, gaga style used for local hockey games (or like another free ad on p. 1, the opening of a dating service in town.)
So, why would a newspaper run a story on a reading contest that probably does more damage than good? And why is it so lavish in its praise?
1. The Moncton Times and Transcript is the sponsor of the contest. This is a free ad for the paper, telling us how public-spirited it is. Frankly, I would prefer it they would restrict their activity to just one thing they don't know how to do. Stick with reporting.
2. It supports the campaign by big business across North America that our schools are in terrible trouble, and can be saved onlyby adopting business methods (as in competition), and by degrees of privatization.
The owners of the Moncton Times can be happy their newspapers don't have competition. (Hey! If they think competition is such a cure-all, why don't the owners of the Moncton Times encourage other newspapers to start up in NB?)
Question for the day - Why does the front page have a free ad for a dating service disguised as a news story? I understand it for the hockey team The owners of The Moncton Times and the Moncton Hockey team are pretty close. Is it one of their buddies who opened the dating service?
Friday, February 4, 2011
Feb. 4; The Big Push Is On.
As government expenses rise, the big push has begun to balance government spending by raising taxes. You will see the big spread given to the CDHowe Institute on p. D2. (C.D.Howe is another one of those so-called think-tanks that are heavily biased in favour of big business; though it's not quite so contemptible as most of the others.)
One could guess their advice without reading the column. Cut the role of government. Make government efficient like big business is by cutting staff and services. Right.
The report doesn't mention which services should be cut; but it's not hard to make up a list. Governments could, for example, cut out special electricity rates, foolish loans and grants, and myriad other services to big business. But the report doesn't suggest it. At that, big business could make itself even more efficient by slowing down the ruanaway inflation rate on salaries, bonuses and perks to senior executives and directors. Heck, as Americans are learning, senior execs can rum coporations broke, get multi-million dollar bonuses for doing it, and also get bailed out by the ordinary taxpayers. We should, of course, cut pensions of those who retire after years of work at ordinary wages. But there is no mention of the pensions and packages paid to the favoured few at the top.
Doesn't the CDHowe know that the money spent on their friends comes from the same people who get stuck with the taxes? The difference is that ordinary people get at least some benefit - hospitals, schools, roads, law enforcement from their money spent on taxes. They don't get anything for their money spent on executive bonuses and perks.
The report is right on one point, though. The tax system is riddled with loopholes, exemptions, rebates and deferrals. But you know what the report says is responsible for that? Well, it's them there social programes like hospitals, schools. Boy, with all their expensive lawyers, accountants, and government clout, them there poor people is gettin' all the breaks. So the rich and big business get soaked just because they're proud to hire lawyers and accountants.
Right.
Watch for a steady flow of items on this theme, probably with a demand for lower taxes for corporations. That's the way it has gone in the US. I guess that's why Americans are so well off - because they rely on the wisdom and care of private corporations in running their lives.
There's a problem much bigger than the deficit. The gap between rich and poor has been growing at an alarming rate in Canada and the US for decades. It's wildly out of control. That sort of thing doesn't just breed recession. It destroys whole societies. And we are heading in that direction very quickly.
Who is this happening? I wonder if the editor of The Moncton T&T would run a series on just how much of our tax money ends up in priate pockets though grants, tax loopholes, subsidies, loand, that sort of thing. I wonder if it would do some research on the real tax rates for the wealthy and corporations.
Nah. I don't have to wonder.
One could guess their advice without reading the column. Cut the role of government. Make government efficient like big business is by cutting staff and services. Right.
The report doesn't mention which services should be cut; but it's not hard to make up a list. Governments could, for example, cut out special electricity rates, foolish loans and grants, and myriad other services to big business. But the report doesn't suggest it. At that, big business could make itself even more efficient by slowing down the ruanaway inflation rate on salaries, bonuses and perks to senior executives and directors. Heck, as Americans are learning, senior execs can rum coporations broke, get multi-million dollar bonuses for doing it, and also get bailed out by the ordinary taxpayers. We should, of course, cut pensions of those who retire after years of work at ordinary wages. But there is no mention of the pensions and packages paid to the favoured few at the top.
Doesn't the CDHowe know that the money spent on their friends comes from the same people who get stuck with the taxes? The difference is that ordinary people get at least some benefit - hospitals, schools, roads, law enforcement from their money spent on taxes. They don't get anything for their money spent on executive bonuses and perks.
The report is right on one point, though. The tax system is riddled with loopholes, exemptions, rebates and deferrals. But you know what the report says is responsible for that? Well, it's them there social programes like hospitals, schools. Boy, with all their expensive lawyers, accountants, and government clout, them there poor people is gettin' all the breaks. So the rich and big business get soaked just because they're proud to hire lawyers and accountants.
Right.
Watch for a steady flow of items on this theme, probably with a demand for lower taxes for corporations. That's the way it has gone in the US. I guess that's why Americans are so well off - because they rely on the wisdom and care of private corporations in running their lives.
There's a problem much bigger than the deficit. The gap between rich and poor has been growing at an alarming rate in Canada and the US for decades. It's wildly out of control. That sort of thing doesn't just breed recession. It destroys whole societies. And we are heading in that direction very quickly.
Who is this happening? I wonder if the editor of The Moncton T&T would run a series on just how much of our tax money ends up in priate pockets though grants, tax loopholes, subsidies, loand, that sort of thing. I wonder if it would do some research on the real tax rates for the wealthy and corporations.
Nah. I don't have to wonder.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Feb. 3: Why pick on the Moncton Times and Transcript?
This blog is about a newspaper in the very small city of Moncton, New Brunswick. Not only is the city small, but the whole province of New Brunswick has a population that, all squashed together, would be less than a medium-size city. All I talk about is a small daily newspaper in a very small city. That's why I thought it so odd to learn that the blog readership stretches across Canada, with strong numbers into the US, and even into Britain, The Netherlands, Slovenia, India, Singapore.... Why?
It may be that these are all travelling salesman from Moncton who want to keep in touch with things at home. But that doesn't seem likely. So, why would a person outside Moncton - let alone in Singapore and in The Netherlands - check on a blog about The Moncton Times&Transcript?
I suspect there are two reasons. One is that The Moncton Times&Transcript is like most of the world's media. Most of the world's media serve as propaganda agents for political parties, social groups, economic systrens, for their owners (often all of these at the same time)....just like the Moncton T&T.
Most of them leave out news that doesn't fit their propaganda role. That is not much different from Moncton to Beijing. The same is true of almost all news media and popular journals. They keep their readers informed about trivia - like which celebrities we have never heard of are having a birthday today; but they keep them ignorant of anything that might stir them to thought. In that respect, they serve the purpose that the Roman games did in amusing the public, and diverting them from noticing that they were in eternal poverty.They also go a step beyond Ancient Rome in adding the propaganda angle. The Moncton T&T is most of the world of journalism shrunk into one miserable speciman in a very small city. For a reader in Slovenia, reading a blog on this local paper is much like looking at a tiny bit of a cockroach under a microscope.
In much thesame sense, New Brunswick is a tiny but very accurate model of North America in its political life. Governments are pretty much run by big business, just as they are across Canada and the US. But the smallness and simplicity of the New Brunswick scene, the tiny circle of major players, make it far more obvious what is going on.
New Brunswick is largely the poperty of one family. Other, bigger places have a dozen and more such families so that the scene can become confusing. But New Brunswick has only a few people on stage. That makes it easier to follow the role each is playing.
The Moncton Times is often misleading and biased as a news source. But so, quite often, is the Toronto Globe and Mail, The New York Times. But on a big stage, the big news media can hide their warts under glitz and sophisticated lighting. The story of the Moncton Times is not unique to Moncton (or even to New Brunswick.)
But seeing what it is, up close, helps all of us to understand our own news media better and our own political worlds better. (The Moncton T&T always reminds me of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.)
It may be that these are all travelling salesman from Moncton who want to keep in touch with things at home. But that doesn't seem likely. So, why would a person outside Moncton - let alone in Singapore and in The Netherlands - check on a blog about The Moncton Times&Transcript?
I suspect there are two reasons. One is that The Moncton Times&Transcript is like most of the world's media. Most of the world's media serve as propaganda agents for political parties, social groups, economic systrens, for their owners (often all of these at the same time)....just like the Moncton T&T.
Most of them leave out news that doesn't fit their propaganda role. That is not much different from Moncton to Beijing. The same is true of almost all news media and popular journals. They keep their readers informed about trivia - like which celebrities we have never heard of are having a birthday today; but they keep them ignorant of anything that might stir them to thought. In that respect, they serve the purpose that the Roman games did in amusing the public, and diverting them from noticing that they were in eternal poverty.They also go a step beyond Ancient Rome in adding the propaganda angle. The Moncton T&T is most of the world of journalism shrunk into one miserable speciman in a very small city. For a reader in Slovenia, reading a blog on this local paper is much like looking at a tiny bit of a cockroach under a microscope.
In much thesame sense, New Brunswick is a tiny but very accurate model of North America in its political life. Governments are pretty much run by big business, just as they are across Canada and the US. But the smallness and simplicity of the New Brunswick scene, the tiny circle of major players, make it far more obvious what is going on.
New Brunswick is largely the poperty of one family. Other, bigger places have a dozen and more such families so that the scene can become confusing. But New Brunswick has only a few people on stage. That makes it easier to follow the role each is playing.
The Moncton Times is often misleading and biased as a news source. But so, quite often, is the Toronto Globe and Mail, The New York Times. But on a big stage, the big news media can hide their warts under glitz and sophisticated lighting. The story of the Moncton Times is not unique to Moncton (or even to New Brunswick.)
But seeing what it is, up close, helps all of us to understand our own news media better and our own political worlds better. (The Moncton T&T always reminds me of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.)
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Feb. 2: Something new and good in The Moncton TandT
No, it's not the the front page. That keads with the usual non-news story that is really a free ad. And, for the third issue in a row, it's an ad for U2. And again, it's written in an cutesy, amateurish style that the Moncton TandT seems to require of its staff writer.s Similarly, the editorial is a routine piece of small town boosterism. The only part of the editorial worth reading is the final sentence. "Their vision and hard work is commendable." The paper should give a prize for the first elementary school student to spot the error in that sentence.
But just below that sentence is something good. The one strength of The Moncton Times is that it carries some very respectable regular columnists. But the guest columnists are often pretty trashy. (I think, in particular, of the propaganda spewed by neo-conservative think tanks, and the by occasional guest politician.) But there is a guest columnist today at the bottom of the editorial page who is well worth a read. It's by Jean-Claude Basque: "Is NB abdicating its responsibility in the fight against poverty?"
M. Basque doesn't have one of them there real fancy titles like "Distinguished Presidential Fellow of World Studies in the Future". He's just listed as a well-known member of the Common Front for Social Justice. But he's a better read than all the distinguished research and economic and consultant fellows of all thoe phoney think tanks put together.
But just below that sentence is something good. The one strength of The Moncton Times is that it carries some very respectable regular columnists. But the guest columnists are often pretty trashy. (I think, in particular, of the propaganda spewed by neo-conservative think tanks, and the by occasional guest politician.) But there is a guest columnist today at the bottom of the editorial page who is well worth a read. It's by Jean-Claude Basque: "Is NB abdicating its responsibility in the fight against poverty?"
M. Basque doesn't have one of them there real fancy titles like "Distinguished Presidential Fellow of World Studies in the Future". He's just listed as a well-known member of the Common Front for Social Justice. But he's a better read than all the distinguished research and economic and consultant fellows of all thoe phoney think tanks put together.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Feb. 1: Sometimes, it's just bloody juvenile
Almost half the front page of today's The Moncton Times and Tribune is taken up with one, huge, "Oh, I'm gonna die. I'm just gonna die" story. It's all about how U2 is coming to Moncton and how the whole world will know all about Moncton. The main story begins in the usual, "oh, I'm just going to die" fashion with "Sometimes in life, something exceeds your expectations." This, it seems, is one of those great moments. You know. Like having quintuplets. Or getting a free donut at the coffee shop. The rest of the article is just as good - juvenile hype to appeal to the very young and to the young in head.
The editrorial was the same pure gush. Please tell me it wasn't actually written by an editor.
Second page big news? There's a rumour that Prince William and Kate Middelton are planning a visit to Canada after their wedding. And if they do, why, then maybe they might come to NB. Well, if the royal couple-to-be read the Feb. 2 of The Moncton Times&Transcript, they'll be sure to visit this city that the whole world is talking about. Maybe we could have the new hockey rink done it time for them.
On a less important note (bottom of p. 1), parents outraged by the closure of MCHS and of the inconvenience this has caused other schools had another public meeting. Maybe a hundred people were there. That's better than the one percent or so who attended their first rally. This one drew, perhaps, over 5%. But with all the media coverage they have received, and with the organizational support of prominent Liberals, that's a pretty piddling turnout.
Nice of the Liberals to get interested, though, since they helped so much to create this mess; and since they didn't have anything that could seriously be called an education platform in their last campaign. In fact, a liberal organizer of the meeting old me during the election campaign that the important thing is to train children for the global economy. There were two problems with that.
1. She had no idea what they needed to learn for a global economy.
2. She was unaware we have been living in a global economy for centuries. That's why Columbus is a famous name in history.
Oh - Another coincidence. The editorial page also has a big comment from Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy -another one of those neo-conservative think tanks that pimps for big business. Actually, there's another coincidence, he was also the founding president of Atlantic Institute of Market Studies.
However, unlike most of those propaganda think-tankers, he doesn't have a fancy pants title.. He's just director-general of the MacDonald Laurier, and before that he was just president of AIMS. I mean, it's not like he was a Distinguished Presidential Supreme Research Fellow of the Future of Everything.
I still think those outfits should have Imperial Wizards. It would sound neat.
The editrorial was the same pure gush. Please tell me it wasn't actually written by an editor.
Second page big news? There's a rumour that Prince William and Kate Middelton are planning a visit to Canada after their wedding. And if they do, why, then maybe they might come to NB. Well, if the royal couple-to-be read the Feb. 2 of The Moncton Times&Transcript, they'll be sure to visit this city that the whole world is talking about. Maybe we could have the new hockey rink done it time for them.
On a less important note (bottom of p. 1), parents outraged by the closure of MCHS and of the inconvenience this has caused other schools had another public meeting. Maybe a hundred people were there. That's better than the one percent or so who attended their first rally. This one drew, perhaps, over 5%. But with all the media coverage they have received, and with the organizational support of prominent Liberals, that's a pretty piddling turnout.
Nice of the Liberals to get interested, though, since they helped so much to create this mess; and since they didn't have anything that could seriously be called an education platform in their last campaign. In fact, a liberal organizer of the meeting old me during the election campaign that the important thing is to train children for the global economy. There were two problems with that.
1. She had no idea what they needed to learn for a global economy.
2. She was unaware we have been living in a global economy for centuries. That's why Columbus is a famous name in history.
Oh - Another coincidence. The editorial page also has a big comment from Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy -another one of those neo-conservative think tanks that pimps for big business. Actually, there's another coincidence, he was also the founding president of Atlantic Institute of Market Studies.
However, unlike most of those propaganda think-tankers, he doesn't have a fancy pants title.. He's just director-general of the MacDonald Laurier, and before that he was just president of AIMS. I mean, it's not like he was a Distinguished Presidential Supreme Research Fellow of the Future of Everything.
I still think those outfits should have Imperial Wizards. It would sound neat.
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