By Denise Tessier Yet again, the Albuquerque Journal has published a local column “debunking” global warming. And yet again, editors gambled on the chance that another local columnist would set the record straight with a nearly point-by-point rebuttal. One did, and the Journal ran it two days after the first. Paul Krugman of The New […]
Entries from April 30th, 2012
‘Just Propaganda’
April 30th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Amy Goodman·Bill McKibben·climate change·Denise Tessier·global warming·Lewis Green·Mark Boslough·New Mexicans for Science and Reason·Paul Krugman·Richard Muller
The ALEC Story: It's Everywhere but the Journal
April 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Fact Check, tax policy, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert I don’t think the Albuquerque Journal can shock me any more. Last time I was stunned was when the editors simply ignored the President’s so-called populist speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Teddy Roosevelt’s historic “New Nationalism” oration in 1910. I’ll admit it – the arrogance shook me. Lately, however, Journal […]
Tags:ALEC·American Legislative Exchange Council·Arthur Alpert·Trayvon Martin
In Praise of Frankness
April 20th, 2012 · No Comments · economy, role of government, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert It would be overstatement to say the Albuquerque Journal is two newspapers, that management’s Journal is an advocate of a partisan agenda and that the staff’s version is about searching for truths, aka journalism. Overstatement yes, but not by much. Consider first all those awards Journal staffers earned from the Society of […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·John Robertson·Society of Professional Journalists
With Apologies to David Brinkley
April 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Fact Check, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert Here’s a pleasant thought – the Albuquerque Journal is an outlier, defined as “a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system.” Rarely, that is, does a newspaper deliberately manipulate the news to advance management’s editorial agenda. What’s more common is tolerance for mediocre or downright poor […]
Will ‘Networked Feminism’ Make Its Way to Sage?
April 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier It didn’t seem fair. Just as the Albuquerque Journal started putting its in-house inserts on glossy paper (see Saturday’s Fit and the March 3 debut of Live Well) the newspaper moved its longest-running in-house magazine, Sage, online. Would Sage not get to go glossy? On top of that, it didn’t seem like […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·abqjournalsage.com·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Carolyn Flynn·contraception·Denise Tessier·Heather Wilson·networked feminism·Sage·The Pill·Violence Against Women Act
Going Beyond "He said, she said"
April 5th, 2012 · No Comments · energy policy, Fact Check, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert The Tuesday, April 3 Albuquerque Journal carried a story I found both praiseworthy and troubling. May I explain why? The piece, from Washington reporter Michael Coleman, was headlined: “‘Big Oil’ Distorts Obama’s Record, Ad in N.M. Says” The story, on C2, reported there’s a new TV ad from a pro-Obama superPAC (Priorities […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·FactCheck.org·Michael Coleman·oil·Priorities USA·super PACs
Blackout of Wisconsin Recall Story Ends
April 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert The Albuquerque Journal’s long darkness is over. You will remember that – despite major demonstrations – Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker succeeded last year in weakening public employee unions’ collective bargaining rights. The Journal published lots of stories on Walker’s attack on organized labor. Then the unions and their allies stormed back and […]
Tags:AP·Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Gov. Scott Walker·organized labor·Wisconsin recall
A Story of Magnitude: High Court Stripping Away at Privacy, Civil Rights
April 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that routine strip searches are acceptable in the United States – for even the most minor of offenses. Recognizing the magnitude of this ruling, Journal reporter Scott Sandlin got together a local angle on the story in time for its publication this morning; fittingly, […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albert Florence·Albuquerque Journal·civil rights·Metropolitan Detention Center·privacy·Scott Sandlin·strip searches·Tom Swisstack·U.S. Supreme Court