By Arthur Alpert It boggles the mind. Did you see it? I refer to the headline, “Charges of media bias have merit” atop an essay the editors at the Albuquerque Journal ran on the editorial page, prominently on the editorial page Sunday, Oct. 2. The Albuquerque Journal charging bias! Talk about the pot calling the […]
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Like the Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Albuquerque Journal takes on “media bias”
October 6th, 2016 · No Comments · Fact Check, journalism
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Brent Bozell·David Duke·Donald Trump·Fox News·Glenn Kessler·Hillary Clinton·Howard Kurtz·Jay Ambrose·Lester Holt·media bias·Michael Coleman·Michelle Ye Hee Lee·Peggy Noonan·Presidential Debate 2016·Washington Post
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
National vs. Local
February 15th, 2016 · 1 Comment · budget policy, Congress, Fact Check, journalism, Washington
By Arthur Alpert About a week go I bumped into a former Albuquerque Journal reporter who said – I paraphrase – we’re essentially on target in our critiques of the daily but I write too often on national and global stories, not enough about the daily’s local coverage. My reaction to the “on target” was […]
Tags:Andrew Taylor·Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·cybersecurity·federal budget·food stamps·Jackie Calmes·Martin Crutsinger·Medicaid·Medicare·national debt·New York Times·Obama·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar·Social Security·Steven Mufson·Washington Post
Marketing Plutocracy
February 1st, 2016 · No Comments · budget policy, economy, Fact Check, financial coverage, journalism, social safety net, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert It may not be much of a newspaper but – credit where credit is due – in its marketing of plutocracy, the Albuquerque Journal is single-minded. Today, Monday, Feb. 1, there’s Page One box headlined “Bad news for NM permanent funds”. It refers readers to a story in the Business Outlook section, […]
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
Kevin McCarthy, Benghazi And The Journal’s Twelve Day Gaffe Gap
October 22nd, 2015 · 2 Comments · Congress, Fact Check, journalism, Washington
By Arthur Alpert Last time out, I copped to my masochism in reading the Albuquerque Journal closely for five years, shared my initial shock and eventual acceptance of the fact that management deliberately and routinely substitutes political decisions for what are, at respectable newspapers, news decisions, and wrote: “I can no longer extend the benefit […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Benghazi committee·Carol Leonnig·Clayton Youngman·Erica Werner·Hillary Clinton·Kevin McCarthy·Lawrence Kellman·Major Bradley Podliska·Racheal Bade·Richard Hanna·Sean Hannity·Tom Hamburger·Trey Gowdy
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
Follow-up: New Low in Pseudo-journalism, Misreporting the Iran Nuclear Deal
September 2nd, 2015 · 1 Comment · Fact Check, journalism, war and peace
By Arthur Alpert Last week, I demonstrated how the Albuquerque Journal is misreporting, egregiously so, the Administration’s nuclear deal with Iran, but warned you that “the True Believers have plumbed a new low in pseudo-journalism over the last few days.” The new low is the editors’ use of an Aug. 19 story from George Jahn […]
Tags:Associated Press·George Jahn·iran nuclear deal·Josh Marshall·Juan Cole·Max Fisher·Michael Coleman·Talking Points Memo·Vox
The Iran Nuclear Deal: True Believers Practicing Pseudo-journalism
August 26th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Fact Check, foreign policy, journalism, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Respectable newspapers build walls to ensure a separation between the owners’ political opinions and the news operation. That is why, to take a current example, nobody is much surprised when the N.Y. Times (establishment liberal) breaks the story that Hillary Clinton (establishment liberal) used a private email server. A newspaper lacking such […]
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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