By Arthur Alpert How does the world change? Are the efforts of extraordinary individuals required or do powerful forces come into play? It’s an eternal argument I don’t pretend to answer. At the Albuquerque Journal, however, it sure looks as if replacing one miscreant has turned the daily from a political tool into a newspaper. […]
Entries Tagged as 'health care reform'
An Excellent Start, But Not Perfect
May 8th, 2017 · 3 Comments · health care reform, journalism
Tags:AHCA·Arthur Alpert·Freedom Caucus·George Will·Karen Moses·Kent Walz·Rep. Michelle Lujan-Grisham·Rep. Steve Pearce
The Rules for Covering Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid: Bad news gets page one, good news gets buried, and Big Pharma gets ignored entirely
November 23rd, 2015 · No Comments · health care reform, journalism
By Arthur Alpert “Premiums to rise for Medicare drug plan” was the headline Journal editors ran over an Associated Press story they front-paged today, Monday, Nov. 23. Of course, they ran it on the front page. There must be a rule at the Journal – anything negative, even potentially negative about Obamacare, Medicare or Medicaid […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Big Pharma·Center for Economic and Policy Research·Dean Baker·drug prices·Medicaid·Medicare·Obamacare·patent monopolies·Paul Krugman·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar·Richard Metcalf·Robert Reich·Saving Capitalism
Falsifying The News
October 16th, 2015 · 3 Comments · health care reform, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Gosh, I’ve been Albuquerque Journal watching on and off for five years now. Just checked. Seems I started in January, 2010.That’s surprising. So is my initial naïveté. I anticipated I would criticize both the political bias seeping into the news pages and the daily’s amateur, incompetent journalism. As it turns out, and […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·second-day lead·Washington Post
Daily Politicization of the News
September 18th, 2015 · 2 Comments · climate change, economy, financial coverage, health care reform, journalism, Koch brothers, role of government
By Arthur Alpert The Albuquerque Journal’s daily politicization of news isn’t always dramatic. The editors don’t slip political material into Associated Press stories every day. Nor do they edit those AP accounts to remove “objectionable” content every day. Sometimes Journal commissars are content to employ relatively pedestrian tools. Today, for example, Friday, Sept. 18, there’s […]
Tags:ACA·Animas River spill·Arthur Alert·Center for Consumer Freedom·Climate Progress·D'Val Westphal·EPA·Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce·Koch brothers·Obamacare·Rick Berman·Rosalie Rayburn
Tools of Misapprehension
July 30th, 2015 · No Comments · health care reform, journalism, role of government, social safety net, war and peace
By Arthur Alpert That the Albuquerque Journal makes most news decisions politically is so obvious it’s become (borderline) boring. Yet the skill with which the editors wield their tools to produce the paper’s daily misapprehension of reality still fascinates me, as does the relentlessness of the effort. By tools, I mean headlines, where stories run, […]
Tags:ALEC·Arthur Alpert·Jeb Bush·John Kasich·Julie Carr Smyth·Koch brothers·Mark Schlesinger·Medicaid·Medicare·Nancy Szokan·New York Times·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar·Washington Post
Unsourced and Misleading: Who wrote mystery paragraph inserted into wire service Obamacare story?
June 11th, 2015 · 2 Comments · Fact Check, health care reform, journalism, Koch brothers, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Recently, I amused you (I hope) with a post on how the Albuquerque Journal has trained me, as Pavlov did his dogs, to rush to the computer whenever it publishes an Op Ed essay from a group named “Freedom” – something. Salivating, I turn from breakfast to Google for my reward – […]
Tags:Affordable Care Act·Alan Fram·Americans for Prosperity·Annenberg Public Policy Center·Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·FactCheck.org·Jim Kuhnhenn·John Boehner·Joseph Welch·Obamacare·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar·Sen. Joseph McCarthy·Vets4Energy
The Stories That Cannot Exist
January 17th, 2015 · 1 Comment · campaign finance reform, Congress, economy, financial coverage, health care reform, journalism, regulation
By Arthur Alpert All hail Nick Estes’ Op Ed column in the January 9 issue of the Albuquerque Journal. We won’t see its like for a long time. Under the rubric, “Yes, we DO know how to fix the economy”, Estes took syndicated columnist Robert Samuelson to task for writing the reverse. Estes explained: “The […]
Tags:ABQ Business First·ABQ Free Press·Arthur Alpert·Ben Protess·Big Pharma·Clement Atlee·Dodd-Frank·Jesse Eisinger·Joe Nocera·Jonathan Weisman·Medicare Part D·Nick Estes·Peter B. Bach·prescription drug prices·ProPublica·Right to Work·Robert E. Rubin·Robert Reich·Robert Samuelson·Social Security disability·Standard & Poors
Old-fashioned Virtues, Anti-Journalism and Net Neutrality
November 16th, 2014 · 3 Comments · health care reform, journalism, net neutrality, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert I wanted today to evaluate the Albuquerque Journal’s political coverage leading up to Nov. 4 – hint, it ranged downward from mediocre – and I will get to it soon. But columns by Winthrop Quigley and D’Val Westphal intervened, reminding me of an old suggestion by my colleague, Denise Tessier and, well, […]
Tags:Anne Flaherty·Arthur Alpert·FCC·net neutrality·Wintrhop Quigley. D’Val Westphal. Affordable Care Act
More Journalistic Offenses of Commission and Omission
September 17th, 2014 · No Comments · economy, financial coverage, health care reform, inequality, journalism, polling
By Arthur Alpert Some days this gig is frustrating. No, that’s incorrect; it’s frustrating most days because I cannot decide if I should alert you to Albuquerque Journal management’s daily journalistic offenses of commission or its offenses of omission. Should I say the headline on Winthrop Quigley’s Sept. 14 UpFront column on commercial insurance rates […]
Tags:APS·Arthur Alpert·Brad Winter·Export-Import Bank·inequality·ISIS·Jon Swedien·Medicare·Obamacare·Standard and Poor's·Wall Street Journal·Winthrop Quigley