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Entries from December 22nd, 2011
What Was He Thinking? A Cautionary Tale
December 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier I’ve never met Phil Parker, but I’ve read his stories in the Albuquerque Journal, most of which have appeared in the North edition because he’s based in Santa Fe. If, back in June, you read the Journal’s front-page coverage of the fires near Los Alamos, you’ve read Phil Parker. From what I’ve [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Matt Taibbi·Phil Parker·Rolling Stone·UpFront·Weekly Alibi
An Editorial Agenda Disguised as News
December 14th, 2011 · No Comments · energy policy, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert What the world needs most is simple human kindness. That’s the theme of “Cat on a Streetcar Named Iguana”, a musical comedy running through this weekend at Albuquerque’s Adobe Theater and (full disclosure) in which I have a role. It’s a lovely sentiment, but I do not always measure up to it. [...]
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Now, That’s Confusing
December 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Count on reading a correction in the Journal Tuesday, Dec. 13. I hope this one comes with an explanation. Because it’s inexplicable to me how Bernalillo County Commissioner Michael C. Wiener’s name ended up on a column written by Commissioner Wayne Johnson. The topic of the column, which I read with interest [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Bernalillo County Commissioner Michael Wiener·Bernalillo County Commissioner Wayne Johnson·Bernco View·transparency portal
We Interrupt Our Coverage…
December 7th, 2011 · No Comments · economy, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert It is Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 and we interrupt our ongoing coverage of the Albuquerque Journal’s continuing sins of commission against journalism to point out one sin of omission. The President spoke in Osawatomie, Kansas, yesterday, where Teddy Roosevelt once called on citizens to free their state and national governments “from the [...]
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A Collaboration in Service to an Agenda
December 5th, 2011 · No Comments · economy, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert The Sunday, Dec. 4 Albuquerque Journal was nothing short of a triumph. It was a tour de force – the editors turned almost the entire newspaper into a weapon of political advocacy. I plan to substantiate that accusation later in the week, but today let’s look at just one story. It takes [...]
UPDATE: On the Journal's Correction of Yesterday's AP Story
December 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · health care reform, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert A doff of the old chapeau to the Albuquerque Journal. The newspaper ran this correction Friday, Dec. 2: “An Associated Press story and accompanying headline published in Thursday’s Journal should have said that President Barack Obama is pushing a payroll tax cut extension. Both incorrectly left out the word “cut” and said [...]
Tags:corrections·health care reofrom·Louis Boccardi·payroll tax cut extension
Cutting the "Cut": The Difference One Word Makes
December 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · tax policy
By Arthur Alpert There I was, slaving over a lengthy post about how the Albuquerque Journal manipulates its opinion columns to fit its narrative on political economy when a terrible headline grabbed me. I’m sorry. The Journal’s penchant for headlines that distort, obscure, ridicule, confuse or promote its agenda presents such an easy target that [...]
