By Arthur Alpert Once upon a time, in an age of laissez-faire, there erupted a horrible fire in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. The sweatshops at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory burned, killing 146 workers, all immigrants (Italian, Jews from East Europe) and almost all (129) women, of whom the youngest was 14. The historic events of March [...]
Entries from March 30th, 2011
Stripping the Context from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
March 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
The Journal Makes a Good Call on White's Appointment
March 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann On March 29, the Albuquerque Journal published an editorial criticizing Gov. Susana Martinez’s choice of City of Albuquerque public safety director Darren White to serve on the New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission. The editorial, titled “White Not A Good Fit for Judicial Standards,” called for White to decline or Martinez to pull [...]
Tags:Darren White·Gov. Susana Martinez·New Mexico Forfeiture Law·New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission
Remembering a ‘Journalist of the Old School’
March 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Before this month fades into history, I’d like to take a moment to remember David Broder. The Washington Post columnist is best known, perhaps, for winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for distinguished commentary on the Watergate scandal, on stories broken by his colleagues Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, also honored with [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·columnists·David Broder·political coverage·polling·Washington Post
Letting Politics Permeate the News
March 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier The headline on the front page of Tuesday’s Journal (March 22) illustrates well how far the paper has strayed from its former hard news ethic over the last three decades. “Libya a Political Risk for Obama” is an editorial-grade headline, more appropriate atop a column on the Editorial or Op-Ed (Opposite Editorial) [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·headlines·political coverage
Gov's Info-Sharing Plan An Odd Thing For The Journal To Endorse
March 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann In a March 21 editorial, the Albuquerque Journal wholeheartedly endorsed a controversial plan by Gov. Susana Martinez to give confidential driver’s license information from the Motor Vehicle Division to Secretary of State Dianna Duran to use for comparison with voter rolls. (Read: “MVD and Voter Lists Need Thorough Vetting”). The rationale behind [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·ACLU-NM·Albuquerque Journal·Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver·Common Cause·Daniel Ivey Soto·Dona Ana County Clerlk Lynn Ellins·Gov. Susana Martinez·Secretary of State Dianna Duran
The Journal's E.J. Dionne Problem
March 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Sometimes, the Albuquerque Journal’s crimes against journalism (petty and grand) are so egregious that I don’t sputter with outrage. No, I find myself smiling instead, in some kind of admiration. As regular readers know, I’ve often pointed out the editors’ inability to write accurate headlines for the Op Ed columns of E.J.Dionne [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuqeurque Journal·E.J. Dionne Jr.
Not So Hidden Agenda
March 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert You gotta give the Albuquerque Journal a hand – it doesn’t hide its agenda. Not well, anyway. As if publishing Robert Samuelson’s deceptive (if predictable) attack on Social Security as “welfare” last Monday wasn’t sufficient, management launched another missile Saturday, March 12. Two in one week! Of course, in a demonstration of [...]
Tags:Charles Krauthammer·Paul Krugman·Robert J. Samuelson·Social Security
Journal Editorial Praising Flight Cost Plan Ignores Effect on Sick Kids
March 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann Saturday’s Albuquerque Journal brought the news that the administration of Gov. Susana Martinez will now charge state agencies 100 percent of the operational cost of flying state planes for state business. Until recently, agencies had to only cover about 40 percent of the cost – with the state’s General Services Department covering [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Children's Medical Services·Edwynn Burckle·Gov. Susana Martinez
Conspiracy Thesis
March 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert What’s the difference between crazy conspiracy theorists and the sane variety? Easy, the nuts know how everything fits into one elaborate plot, while reasonable folks harbor a few doubts. Which means I’m borderline loco, because I find the evidence more persuasive every day that the Albuquerque Journal pushes a political agenda in [...]
Tags:conspiracy theory·Dana Milbank·E.J. Dionne·Mark Zandi·Pew Research Center·Robert Samuelson
