Subject: Mar 12 07 from John Steeves Sussex based Columist
from John Steeves Sussex based Columist...
I don't normally pretend to be able to 'see' into the future. At least not in specific terms.
However, I will make an exception today.
I predict that tomorrow March 13, 2007:
1. The Telegraph-Journal and other news media (including the CBC) will carry prominent news coverage of Premier Graham's meeting with Governor Duval of Massachusetts. I am even willing to predict that this coverage will use words such as 'warm, enthusiastic' and so-on to describe Duval's reaction to Graham's proposal to let NB solve the energy needs of NB.
2. I further predict that, in the Boston Globe and the NPR Boston station, WBUR, there will be no mention of the meeting (at best a short paragraph buried somewhere in the Boston media's continuing coverage of the Governor trying to cut back on his official duties now that his wife is under medical care for either stress or depression).
In fact, Graham has (through no fault of his own) picked an awkward time to approach the Mass Governor with his energy supply dreams. The governor is new to his office, he has had several problems of his own, and now his wife is under medical care (presumably as a result). He is unlikely to be 'warm, open and enthusiastic'. More likely, he will be 'distracted, vague and uncertain'.
However, those facts are unlikely to prevent the Premier and his spin doctors from presenting their version of the meeting. And since our local media lack either the funds or the desire to send reliable and independent reporters along on such junkets, the news stories New Brunswickers will receive tomorrow will be either direct from the Premier himself or rewrites from the government news wire.
They must think we are mushrooms. They feed us manure and keep us in the dark.
John Steeves
PS:
If you think this is worth sending out, go ahead. I have not submitted it anywhere.... and, even if someone would print it, it should be read today or not at all.
Plus tomorrow, I could be proven 100% wrong... The meeting COULD be the lead item in the Boston Globe
2 comments:
Bonjour Charles,
J'ai pensé que tu aimerais peut-être lire un article paru dans le journal CapAcadie "éventuel monopole d'Irving qui inquiète"
bonne journée!
Médias: un éventuel monopole d'Irving inquiète
Mise à jour le mardi 13 mars 2007
MONCTON - Le chroniqueur au journal Le Devoir, Jean-Claude Leclerc, craint que l'empire Irving ne tente l'expérience de la convergence médiatique totale au Nouveau-Brunswick d'ici quelques années. Il estime que ceci serait désastreux pour la liberté d'expression dans la province.
Jean-Claude Leclerc travaille depuis 40 dans le milieu journalistique.
Éditorialiste et chroniqueur respecté, ainsi que professeur à l'Université de Montréal, il était de passage à l'Université de Moncton, hier, afin de prononcer une conférence sur l'éthique et le journalisme.
Ou est le reste de histoire????
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