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Credibility of Austerity Economics in Freefall Everywhere Except at the Journal

May 1st, 2013 · 5 Comments · budget policy, economy, financial coverage, journalism

By Arthur Alpert Pity the poor politicians who edit the Albuquerque Journal. It won’t be easy adjusting the narrative to fit the oligarchy’s new strategy, but soon they’ll do just that. The newspaper’s narrative (or line or editorial agenda) matters because at the Journal, it dictates what gets published – syndicated opinion, Op Ed opinion [...]

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 [...]

National News as Appetizer: Small Bites Leave Reader Looking for More

March 19th, 2013 · 1 Comment · budget policy, Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier A friend once complained heartily to me that the Albuquerque Journal wasn’t worth reading because it didn’t have enough national news. I disagreed on the grounds local papers should focus on local news – anything national was gravy. Lack of national news could be a moot point today, when local news can [...]

You Can’t Buy This Kind of Publicity – and Credibility

January 21st, 2013 · 2 Comments · budget policy, economy, Education, energy policy, environment, NM Legislature, regulation, tax policy

By Denise Tessier You can’t pay for advertising this good, and thanks to the Albuquerque Journal, the conservative, roll back-regulation-thumping Rio Grande Foundation doesn’t have to take out ads. On Saturday, RGF hit pay dirt with a full-blown news story on the Business page about its “unique, 21-day report on the state’s regulatory environment and [...]

Resurrecting St. Pete: The Journal’s Domenici Story Decoded

December 20th, 2012 · No Comments · budget policy, journalism, tax policy

By Arthur Alpert A publisher coined the phrase “without fear or favor.” When Adolph Ochs acquired The New York Times in 1896, he promised readers it would be his “earnest aim to … give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved.” Obviously, the Albuquerque Journal takes a different [...]

Occasionally Serving The Public Interest

October 18th, 2012 · No Comments · budget policy, economy, journalism

By Arthur Alpert Every once in a while, the Albuquerque Journal becomes a useful organ of information, hinting at what it might be were management to abandon the practice of advocating its editorial agenda in the so-called news columns. I refer to Dana Priest’s long takeout on the B61 bomb, “the oldest weapon in America’s [...]

Expert Choreography

October 12th, 2012 · No Comments · budget policy, economy, role of government, tax policy

By Arthur Alpert The small role I played in the just-closed production of “Pride and Prejudice” at the Adobe required that I dance. Though I neither fell nor harmed my partner, I doubt my movements constituted dancing. Too bad I lacked the dexterity just demonstrated by Albuquerque Journal editors in coverage of the annual Domenici [...]

Agenda-setting

September 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · budget policy, economy, journalism, tax policy

By Arthur Alpert It’s called “agenda-setting,” the theory that a prime function of news mediums is to tell readers and viewers what the big issues are. Makes sense to me, though I’d add that how the business couches those issues matters just as much as which they pick. So with those ideas in mind, let’s [...]

Behind the Curve

August 24th, 2012 · 1 Comment · budget policy, economy, regulation, role of government

By Arthur Alpert I run as fast as I can but cannot keep up. Let me explain my routine. After spending a few hours shaping a piece on Albuquerque Journal management’s malfeasance, I save it and go about some other business. Tomorrow, I figure, I’ll double-check, proof and give it a final rewrite. But tomorrow [...]

The Journal Can’t Get Enough of Robert Samuelson’s War Against Geezers

August 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment · budget policy, economy, health care reform, tax policy, Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert I read lots of humdrum stuff, but what psychologist Jonathan Haidt told the N.Y. Times a couple of weeks ago was a jolt. “The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it’s rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.” Extreme partisans, he [...]