By Arthur Alpert Sometimes I just don’t understand. Perhaps you can explain what just happened. My editor had hardly finished posting my last essay, with its reference to the Albuquerque Journal’s refusal to identify the Koch brothers’ essays it regularly publishes as Koch brothers’ essays, when the daily’s editors did it again! They obfuscated the […]
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Koch Brothers Watch: The Journal did it again and then ran a puzzling correction
July 24th, 2016 · 1 Comment · climate change, journalism, Koch brothers, Uncategorized
Tags:ALEC·Arthur Alpert·Heartland Institute·Institute for Policy Innovation·Koch brothers·Merrill Matthews·tobacco industry
The Journal and the Web of Climate Change Denial
July 18th, 2016 · 2 Comments · climate change, energy policy, Fact Check, journalism, Koch brothers
By Arthur Alpert Years ago back East, I taught journalism as an adjunct professor at colleges and a university. If I were to do it again, say at UNM, I’d insist my students read the Albuquerque Journal. To pick up tips from some excellent reporters and columnists, yes, but mostly to learn from the editors […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Center for Media and Democracy·Climate Progress·fossil fuel industry·Joe Romm·Michael Coleman·Pete Domenci·Rio Grande Foundation·Senator Tom Udall
The ExxonMobil Global Warming Cover-Up Story: Its first Journal appearance portrays the oil giant as a victim
November 12th, 2015 · 2 Comments · climate change, energy policy, environment, journalism, regulation
By Arthur Alpert Darn that Albuquerque Journal. I was working on an essay aimed at giving you insight into the editors’ sad assumptions that underlie the daily’s journalistic failures. And what happens? The very same editors execute a simple but characteristic political maneuver that screams for my immediate attention and yours. They did so via […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Attorney General Eric Schneiderman·Big Oil·Big Tobacco·climate change·Climate Progress·cover-up·Emily Atkin·energy policy·ExxonMobil·fossil fuels·global warming·Guardian·Los Angeles Times·Peabody Coal·Robert Samuelson
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
Journal Lets Focus of Coverage Be Led by GOP
July 9th, 2015 · 3 Comments · climate change, energy policy, environment, labor, regulation, role of government, Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier “Outside groups wrote sick leave bill” was the headline on the front page of the Albuquerque Journal Wednesday (July 8). Now, that’s a shocker. I’m sorry to say I’m resorting to sarcasm here. The Journal, which has yet to acknowledge – let alone publish anything of substance about the influence a truly […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque City Council·Albuquerque Journal·ALEC·Brad Winter·Carla Sonntag·Communication Workers of America·Dan McKay·Denise Tessier·Fair Workweek Act·Isaac Benton·Klarissa Peña·New Mexico Business Coalition·New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty·OLÉ·Rey Garduño
No Denying of Access for Climate Change Deniers
May 22nd, 2015 · 1 Comment · climate change, energy policy, environment, journalism
By Denise Tessier It’s been nearly two years since the Los Angeles Times stopped running letters from climate change deniers, and a few other media outlets have since taken a stand against disseminating misinformation about the science of climate change. The Albuquerque Journal is not among them. Once again this past week the Journal ran […]
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Carrying Water for the Right. . .and Other Blunders
May 3rd, 2015 · No Comments · campaign finance reform, climate change, environment, foreign policy, inequality, journalism
By Denise Tessier Ideas for ABQJournalWatch posts have far surpassed my time to write of late, and rather than let them get too moldy to use (as has often been the case in the past), the following are brief riffs on (fairly) recent Albuquerque Journal eyebrow raisers. It’s OK for Susana but Not the Dems […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Associated Press·Cal Thomas·California drought·climate change·Denise Tessier·Gary Mitchell·Gov. Susana Martinez·Hector Balderas·James Waylon Counts·Joe Monahan·Journal North·Karen Parsons·Mark Oswald·Mountain View Telegraph·NM State Public Defender Commission·Scott Sandlin·state public defender crisis·Susana PAC!·Tim Keller
Agenda-Driven Omissions: Journal Overlooks Four Major Pipeline Spills in January
February 20th, 2015 · No Comments · climate change, energy policy, journalism, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert It drives me crazy. After three years of reading the Albuquerque Journal closely, I know it’s not a daily newspaper (as we commonly understand the term) but a political tract in journalistic dress. Yet every time I chose to show how that works in practice, the editors provide a timelier, juicier, more […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Emily Akin·Joby Warrick·Kanawha River oil spill·Katie Valentine·Keystone XL Pipeline·Matthew Brown·Think Progress·Washington Post
The Journal Deserves Worse Than A Flunking Grade for Keystone XL Pipeline Editorial
December 5th, 2014 · 4 Comments · climate change, energy policy, environment, Fact Check, journalism
By Arthur Alpert I rarely write about the Albuquerque Journal’s editorials because the daily’s owners have a right to express their opinions there. And since the aim of most editorials is to persuade, the authors deserve plenty of room to assemble and tailor evidence for the argument. That said, editorials ought to live up to […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Brad Plummer·Keystone XL Pipeline·Sen. Martin Heinrich·Sen. Tom Udall·TransCanada