By Arthur Alpert Look for the Albuquerque Journal to run an Op Ed soon that extols the oil and gas industry for its outstanding safety record, in particular. How do I know this? I don’t. But the newspaper’s pattern makes it a sure thing. Where oil and gas are concerned, the editors consistently run opinion [...]
Entries Tagged as 'journalism'
Fossil Fuels Industry Coverage: No news if it’s bad news
April 2nd, 2013 · No Comments · economy, energy policy, environment, journalism, regulation, role of government
Tags:Alberta·Arthur Alpert·CARE·Exxon Mobil pipeline leak·fossil fuel industry·Kenneth Brown·Keystone XL Pipeline·Marita K. Noon·Mark Mathis·oil and gas industry·Parkers Prairie·Steven Mufson·tar sands oil
Signs of Spring?
March 31st, 2013 · No Comments · budget policy, economy, journalism
By Arthur Alpert It’s warm again this morning, but as a wise New Mexican I won’t call the swamp cooler guy. It’s another false spring. A perpetual optimist, I keep scrutinizing the morning paper, too, for signs of an Albuquerque Journal spring. And recently a few greens sprouted. Did you notice the story headlined, “Parties [...]
Tags:ALEC·American Legislative Exchange Council·Anthony Lewis·Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Brad Plummer·David Espos·DOMA·Mark Sherman·minimum wage·Robert J. Samuelson
More Shocking Than Sex: Censorship of Student Journalism
March 29th, 2013 · 1 Comment · journalism
By Denise Tessier It’s a timely coincidence that the Spring issue of UNM’s alumni magazine Mirage featured four former editors and the current editor of the UNM Daily Lobo addressing the value of “an independent student newspaper.” It’s timely because it came just days before Central New Mexico Community College administrators shut down CNM’s student [...]
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New Mexico Mercury: Journalism as a ‘Regional Meeting of the Minds’
March 23rd, 2013 · 3 Comments · journalism, Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Since the demise of the Albuquerque Tribune more than four years ago, V.B. (Barrett) Price has been trying to save Albuquerque from being a one-newspaper (Albuquerque Journal) town. For two of those years, he did so by contributing columns at the all-volunteer, free distribution paper ABQ TRIal Balloon, which, as its name [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Benito Aragon·Century magazine·Denise Tessier·Diane Velasco·E. B. White·Eric Garcia·H.L. Mencken·New Mexico Compass·New Mexico In Depth·New Mexico Independent·New Mexico Mercury·online journalism·The Citizen·The Conversation·The Texas Tribune·V. B. Price
Isn’t it time for a Foundation for Open Corporate America?
March 15th, 2013 · 1 Comment · economy, journalism, open government, role of government
By Arthur Alpert Consider this pregnant juxtaposition. It’s Sunshine Week and today, March 15, the Albuquerque Journal has omitted any report on JP Morgan dysfunction, totally ignoring what N.Y. Times editors deemed the top story of the day and what Washington Post editors considered essential, too. This is intentional and deliberate. Probably the Journal will [...]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Foundation for Open Government·Sunshine Week
Island of Influence: Report Details Impact of Koch-funded Donors Trust in New Mexico
March 10th, 2013 · 2 Comments · environment, journalism, role of government, tax policy, voting rights
By Arthur Alpert Remember when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refused to “recognize” China because he disapproved of its Communist government? A wedding of stupidity and arrogance was sufficient to wipe a colossus from the world atlas. The Albuquerque Journal’s inability to recognize the existence of a continent of the wealthy – where cash [...]
Tags:Americans for Prosperity·Arthur Alpert·Center for Public Integrity·Charles Koch·climate change denial·Denise Tessier·Donors Capital Fund·Donors Trust·Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity·Heartland Instutute·Heritage Foundation·Jim DeMint·John Foster Dulles·Ken Silverstein·New Mexico Watchdo·Paul Abowd·Rio Grande Foundation·The New Republic·Thomas Cole·Voting Rights Act·Whitney Ball
A Revealing Prism
March 4th, 2013 · 2 Comments · economy, financial coverage, journalism, labor, role of government, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert The Albuquerque Journal’s editorials on national issues are educational. • They reveal management’s political stance. • They identify the prism through which management views news. • They augur which stories, opinions and ideas the newspaper will publish and which will earn token appearances or none at all. Case in point – the [...]
Tags:Alan Simpson·Arthur Alpert·Ben Bernanki·Erskine Bowles·George Will·Joseph Stiglitz·Paul Krugman·Simpson-Bowles
Minimum Wage Update: Comforting the Comfortable
February 25th, 2013 · 1 Comment · economy, journalism, labor, NM Legislature
By Arthur Alpert How do I love thee, oh minimum wage debate? Let me count the ways. Well, no, let me enumerate, instead, just two reasons for my passion. First, minimum wage disputes are, at bottom, about distribution of power in the hierarchy. And understanding that the world is vertical (authoritarian), not horizontal (democratic) underlies [...]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Dan McKay·Deborah Baker·Employment Policies Institute·Micahel Saltsman·minimum wage·National Federation of Independent Business·Samuel Bowles
Handling the Domenici Disclosure
February 21st, 2013 · 6 Comments · journalism
By Denise Tessier The Albuquerque Journal was handed a scoop with former Sen. Pete Domenici’s disclosure he fathered a secret child decades ago, a story that was quickly picked up by news outlets nationwide. The disclosure story published Wednesday (Feb. 20) was the result of Domenici contacting the paper with the revelation that New Mexico’s [...]
Tags:Character Counts·Clinton impeachment·Denise Tessier·Domenici Institute for Public Policy·Edward Lujan·Gov. Susana Martinez·Gov. Toney Anaya·Michelle Laxalt·National Hispanic Cultural Center·New Mexico History Museum·Pete Domenici·Responsible Fatherhood Act·Sen. Paul Laxalt·Washington Post
Keeping the Minimum Wage Pot Boiling at the (Albuquerque) Journal of Opinion
February 16th, 2013 · 1 Comment · economy, journalism, labor, role of government, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert (Feb. 14, 2013) How can it be that the President wants to raise the federal minimum wage? Surely he’s aware that the Albuquerque Journal opposes it with every fiber of its being. I don’t mean editorially, although the paper has so editorialized. No, I mean the Journal is opposed in its (so-called) [...]
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