Now, I wish to make myself very clear. I have met a lot of these students and they were very pleasant and nice to me.
God knows what it said in that classroom?..lol...
I know Philip Lee and he’s a swell guy.
He reads my blog and he was keeping a very close eye on my trial in Saint John.
The class debated the issue of blogging and I wish I could have been a fly on the wall.
I have nothing against the Journalist course but my main concern are the Irvings!
I was going to take a journalism course at Saint Thomas two years ago but this all changed when the Irvings gave one million dollars to the Centre.
As I told the New York Times - It would have been an impossible task for me sitting down and listening to an Irving employee.
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Just like the time the Irvings flew in Neil Reynolds from out West for a speech in 2005.
Boy? I mellow down a little compare to my earlier blogs about the Irvings. I went toe to toe with Neil. You can read the blog I wrote in 2005 by clicking below -
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I wish to add that 99% of the students I chatted with disagreed with the administration decision at Saint Thomas in accepting that money.
It left a huge black eye to the students because these days the journalist course and the Irvings go hand in hand.
These students will graduate and they will be gun-ho but they will soon find out who’s in control of the media in New Brunswick.
They will not be allowed to investigate the Irvings in certain issues.
These students are a radical bunch.
I heard last year. Jamie Irving showed up in the classroom.
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I remembered joking about it by asking if all the students quickly jumped up from their chairs and stood attention?
From what I heard? Jamie got some nasty questions about the media monopoly in this Province.
I guess he wasn’t amused.
Now, I got nothing against the students or the teachers.
They are fine people but I believe it’s time for the Irvings to back off from the Journalism course at Saint Thomas because it truly leaves a bad taste in everyone mouth.
Especially the students.
