By Arthur Alpert News judgment is famously subjective, but that doesn’t mean you cannot question it. Often there’s a pattern involved, so it’s easy to show how the Albuquerque Journal’s agenda warps its news coverage. Even, that is, with stories that aren’t there. Take, for example, the New York Times lead story Wednesday, Oct. 27 [...]
Entries from October 27th, 2010
Paul The Octopus Trumps Pharma Fraud
October 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Angelo R. Mozilo·Countrywide Financial·GlaxoSmithKline·New York Times
Breaking From History and Tradition on the Candidate Endorsement Process
October 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier This past Sunday, the Albuquerque Journal concluded its endorsement cycle. Pretty much all that’s left to print are the wrap-ups summarizing whom the Journal has decided to favor, the final list of which will probably run the Sunday before Election Day. Names and specific endorsements aside, a sea change has occurred at [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·campaign endorsements
A Tale of Two Columns
October 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert This is a tale of two columns. They’re both by Dana Milbank whose Washington Post pieces the Albuquerque Journal often publishes in its Op Ed pages. The Journal published one today (Oct. 25) under the headline: “Democratic Party Head Tries to Keep Confidence Going”. In it, Milbank ridiculed Chris Van Hollen, the [...]
Tags:A Tea Party of populist posers·Dana Milbank·fairness·Op Ed page
Is There an Echo in Here?
October 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann I wrote earlier this week about the puzzling appearance of the words “punishing business” in the headline of an Oct. 17 news story about combined reporting. I thought it was odd, because there was nothing in the story about “punishing business” and the people quoted in the story as opponents of combined [...]
Tags:candidate endorsements·combined reporting·mixing news and opinion·slanted headlines
Celebrate the First Amendment
October 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert A brief note in celebration of the First Amendment: John Trever’s cartoon in today’s Albuquerque Journal (Oct. 22) rebukes 2010 election campaigners for mudslinging. “How low can they go?” asks an onlooker. Thus does the teapot call the kettle black!
Tags:"Ground Zero Mosque"·First Amendment·freedom of speech·John Trever
This Headline Gives Me a Headache
October 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann In the newspaper business, editorializing is supposed to happen on the editorial page, not in headlines on news stories. But that’s exactly what happened in the Oct. 19 issue of the Journal with the headline on a story about combined reporting. Combined reporting would require a corporation that does business in New [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·combined reporting·Sean Olson
Der Kommissar's In Town? (Uh oh)
October 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Riddle: How does the Albuquerque Journal resemble the Red Army? Answer: The Soviet Union used to attach a political commissar to units of the armed forces to be certain soldiers didn’t stray from the Kremlin’s pravda. And I surmise – surmise, mind you – the Journal has an editor to preclude flagrant [...]
Tags:"Inside Job"·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·E.J. Dionne·Kathleen Parker
Is It News, Or Not?
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert A brief note on what the Albuquerque Journal did not find newsworthy Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. It was that Angelo R. Mozilo, the former chief executive of Countrywide Financial, once the nation’s largest mortgage lender, agreed to pay $67.5 million to settle a civil fraud case brought by the SEC. In the [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Angelo Mozilo·Countrywide Financial
Deciding What's "Foreign" and "Exotic"
October 15th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann What exactly is a “foreigner?” And what kind of name is “exotic?” I’m left pondering those questions – and wondering who gets to decide the answers – after reading the story headlined, “7 Foreigners Charged With Medicare Fraud,” in the Oct. 14 Albuquerque Journal. Here’s the lead: “Seven individuals with exotic sounding [...]
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