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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Koch brothers'
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
A Self-Made Trap: Pity for the Commissars, Part Two
May 8th, 2016 · No Comments · journalism, Koch brothers
By Arthur Alpert As I write Thursday, May 6, Albuquerque Journal editors ask a good question at the top of the front page, “Is the GOP ready to follow Trump? I have a better question –is the Albuquerque Journal ready to follow Trump? The Journal has spent the entire primary season, after all, clobbering Mr. […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Donald Trump·Hillary Clinton·Jeb Bush·Koch brothers·Matea Gold·Michael Coleman·Mike McIntire·New York Times·Scott Walker·Ted Cruz·Washington Post
Kochtopus Tentacle in [INSERT STATE NAME HERE]
January 19th, 2016 · No Comments · journalism, Koch brothers
By Arthur Alpert As an avid follower of politics, it’s my impression the political Left makes too much of the Koch brothers’ efforts to shape the nation. They’re not the only billionaires out to conform the nation to their private interests. As an avid reader of the Albuquerque Journal for purposes of journalistic criticism, I’m […]
Tags:Andy Cush·Arthur Alpert·Gawker·Institute for Justice·Koch brothers·Mark Holden·Paul Gessing·Rio Grande Foundation·Tom Hamburger
Christmas Surprises
December 23rd, 2015 · 1 Comment · journalism, Koch brothers
By Arthur Alpert I cannot be trusted. Last time, Dec. 10, in a post where I suggested the Albuquerque Journal has promoted Gov. Martinez into the “sacred cow” status Pete Domenici once occupied, I promised I would deal next with the daily’s “sourness, narrow-mindedness and ban on ideas the richest do not endorse.” Ah, but […]
Tags:ABQ Free Press·Arthur Alpert·Gov. Susana Martinez·Heath Haussamen·Joe Monahan·Mark Oswald·Thom Cole
Economic Mobility and Poverty: Journal’s political agenda overrides the facts
November 30th, 2015 · 3 Comments · economy, Fact Check, inequality, journalism, Koch brothers, social safety net
By Arthur Alpert It is Monday, Nov. 30 and having just finished reading the Albuquerque Journal, I’m shaking my head. It’s more of the same. Political advocacy I mean, disguised as journalism. Sorry Donald Trump, the daily’s editors don’t want you to be the GOP nominee. Sorry, Hillary Clinton, judging from today’s double-barreled assault (yet […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·City Lab·Dan Herrera·Jay Ambrose·Koch brothers·Lewis Powell Memo·Politifact·Veronica Garcia
What’s behind the Journal’s anti-Trump campaign?
October 2nd, 2015 · 2 Comments · Fact Check, journalism, Koch brothers, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert Most mornings, I read the Albuquerque Journal over breakfast, then turn to the computer to sample the Washington Post and NY Times. The Post’s news stories are all over the lot, leaving me with no clue as to what the Post’s editorials will say. The same is true of the NY Times; […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Bloomberg·Christopher Flavelle·Donald Trump·Jeff Horwitz·John McCormick·Scott Walker·Tim Jones
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
Watching The Journal Cover The Presidential Campaign
July 21st, 2015 · No Comments · campaign finance reform, journalism, Koch brothers
By Arthur Alpert As an independent voter, I am watching the burgeoning 2016 presidential campaign without great enthusiasm. When the major parties name their standard-bearers, I’ll have to choose the lesser corporate evil. It’s great fun, though, watching the Albuquerque Journal – political machine in newspaper costume – cover the campaign. And the best part […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Bernie Sanders·campaign finance·Charles Krauthammer·Chris Cilizza·Donald Trump·Gov. Scott Walker·Hillary Clinton·Jeb Bush·Koch brothers·Monica Davey·Sen. Ted Cruz
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