By Arthur Alpert Sometimes I just don’t understand. Perhaps you can explain what just happened. My editor had hardly finished posting my last essay, with its reference to the Albuquerque Journal’s refusal to identify the Koch brothers’ essays it regularly publishes as Koch brothers’ essays, when the daily’s editors did it again! They obfuscated the […]
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Koch Brothers Watch: The Journal did it again and then ran a puzzling correction
July 24th, 2016 · 1 Comment · climate change, journalism, Koch brothers, Uncategorized
Tags:ALEC·Arthur Alpert·Heartland Institute·Institute for Policy Innovation·Koch brothers·Merrill Matthews·tobacco industry
Tools of Misapprehension
July 30th, 2015 · No Comments · health care reform, journalism, role of government, social safety net, war and peace
By Arthur Alpert That the Albuquerque Journal makes most news decisions politically is so obvious it’s become (borderline) boring. Yet the skill with which the editors wield their tools to produce the paper’s daily misapprehension of reality still fascinates me, as does the relentlessness of the effort. By tools, I mean headlines, where stories run, […]
Tags:ALEC·Arthur Alpert·Jeb Bush·John Kasich·Julie Carr Smyth·Koch brothers·Mark Schlesinger·Medicaid·Medicare·Nancy Szokan·New York Times·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar·Washington Post
Journal Lets Focus of Coverage Be Led by GOP
July 9th, 2015 · 3 Comments · climate change, energy policy, environment, labor, regulation, role of government, Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier “Outside groups wrote sick leave bill” was the headline on the front page of the Albuquerque Journal Wednesday (July 8). Now, that’s a shocker. I’m sorry to say I’m resorting to sarcasm here. The Journal, which has yet to acknowledge – let alone publish anything of substance about the influence a truly […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque City Council·Albuquerque Journal·ALEC·Brad Winter·Carla Sonntag·Communication Workers of America·Dan McKay·Denise Tessier·Fair Workweek Act·Isaac Benton·Klarissa Peña·New Mexico Business Coalition·New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty·OLÉ·Rey Garduño
The Journal-Koch Brothers Relationship: How tight is it?
April 29th, 2015 · 4 Comments · campaign finance reform, journalism, Koch brothers, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert I have become Pavlov’s dog and I don’t like it. You may remember how Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) conditioned a dog to salivate at the ring of a bell. Well, editors at the Albuquerque Journal (Pavlov) have trained me (pooch) to rush from the breakfast table to the iMac. There’s no […]
Tags:ALEC·Andy Koenig·Arthur Alpert·E.J. Dionne·Eric Stern·Freedom Partners·Koch brothers·Libre Initiative·Paul Waldman·Politico·Washington Post
Shining a Light on the Attacks on Solar Energy
January 9th, 2015 · 2 Comments · energy policy, environment, journalism, regulation
By Denise Tessier A year ago this month, I posted some of the 2014 new year’s goals for the powerful “bill mill” known as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), one of which was to protect polluters and attack clean energy sources by metering and charging those who produce their own solar energy. A few […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·ALEC·Arizona Public Service·Denise Tessier·Kevin Goodreau·Kevin Robinson-Avila·PNM·Public Service Company of New Mexico·renewable energy credit·roof-top solar energy fees·utility rate increases
Not Newsworthy at The Journal: Climate Change Protests, Departure of Google and Facebook from ALEC
September 24th, 2014 · 1 Comment · energy policy, environment, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Across the globe, demonstrators marched and chanted and some did civil disobedience to wake the rest of us to the ill effects of climate change. That was Sunday, Sept. 21. The New York Times’ story the next day, prominently displayed, was headlined “Taking a Call for Climate Change to the Streets”. The […]
Tags:ALEC·alternative energy·American Legislative Exchange Council·Amy Goodman·Arthur Alpert·climate change·Dominc Rushe·Emily Atkin·Eugene Robinson·New York Times·oil and gas industry·solar energy·The Guardian·Think Progress·Washington Post
Growing Awareness About Climate Change Too Great To Ignore
September 23rd, 2014 · No Comments · energy policy, environment, journalism
By Denise Tessier “People must lead in climate change .” That headline on Eugene Robinson’s column in the Albuquerque Journal this morning couldn’t be more pertinent. The people who will lead in climate change aren’t the world leaders meeting today at the U.N. Climate Summit, but rather the citizens of the world, Robinson wrote, saying […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·ALEC·BBC·Cal Thomas·climate change·Denise Tessier·Diane Rehm·Eric Schmidt·Eugene Robinson·fossil fuel divestiture·Google·letters to editor policies·Los Angeles Times·Rockefeller Brothers Fund·Washington Post
Journal Editorials Omit Key Information in Laying Foundation for Positions They Take
July 31st, 2014 · No Comments · Fact Check, journalism, tax policy
By Denise Tessier Two recent Albuquerque Journal editorials – on why Americans should celebrate the Fourth of July (“Try Asking a Guatemalan”) and one on the nation’s debt – were called out for criticism by JournalWatch colleague Arthur Alpert last week, and caught my attention as well because of their distorted “analysis”. But, sadly, the […]
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Cogs in the Koch Astroturf Machine
April 29th, 2014 · 2 Comments · energy policy, Fact Check, journalism
By Arthur Alpert It was a small item, really, a few slim paragraphs, on the Albuquerque Journal’s Business page Friday, April 25. Yet it spoke or rather shouted volumes about the newspaper. The headline read, “Libertarian author to talk at luncheon”. “The Rio Grande Foundation”, it read, “is hosting a luncheon talk with Matt Kibbe […]
Tags:ALEC·American Petroleum Institute·Americans for Prosperity·AngryRenter·Arthur Alpert·C. Boyden Gray·Citizens for a Sound Economy·Dick Armey·FreedomWorks·Koch brothers·Matt Kibbe·Richard Stephenson·Rio Grande Foundation·Steve Forbes
On the Education Front: Moving Front and Center, But Wounded From the Fight
February 17th, 2014 · No Comments · Education, NM Legislature
By Denise Tessier Education policy got the play it deserved in the Sunday morning Journal, at the top of the front page. “Education policy in focus at Roundhouse” no doubt was pushed over the top in terms of placement by the newsworthy coming together outside the Capitol Roundhouse of several hundred teachers and parents demonstrating […]
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