By Arthur Alpert Do the honchos at the Albuquerque Journal ever read the Albuquerque Journal? I’m not kidding. In a moment I will present hard evidence to bolster the hypothesis that they don’t or that they read it but don’t grasp what the words mean. I can’t be certain. But consider this: On the Opinion […]
Entries Tagged as 'Associated Press'
Making the Delegate Call: Journal Editorializes against Itself
June 10th, 2016 · 1 Comment · journalism
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Bernie Sanders·Democratic presidential nomination·Hillary Clinton·media·Spiro Agnew
Missing the “Why”: Harvey Yates vs. Pat Rogers
May 23rd, 2016 · No Comments · journalism
By Arthur Alpert Why? Why was oilman Harvey Yates Jr. so intent on defeating Governor Martinez’s choice, Pat Rogers, for GOP national committee? Why and what was his beef? I’ve been wondering why since the Albuquerque Journal began covering the intra-party dispute, but it never came clear. The Journal told me “who, what, when and […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Dan Boyd·Gov. Susana Martinez·Harvey Yates Jr.·Jay McCleskey·journalism·Las Cruces Sun-News·Morgan Lee·NM Republican Party·Pat Rogers·Santa Fe New Mexican·Steve Terrell
More Lessons in Public Interest Journalism: The Fiduciary Rule
April 19th, 2016 · 1 Comment · financial coverage, journalism, labor, regulation, role of government
By Arthur Alpert As I was saying last time, seeing “Spotlight”, the Oscar winning film about the Boston Globe’s exposé of widespread abuse of children in the local Archdiocese, reminded me that many newspapers set themselves the goal of serving the public interest. But what is the public interest? Well, a commonsense definition might be […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Department of Labor·fiduciary rule·government regulation·Jared Bernstein·Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez·Mary Gordon·New York Times·public interest·Spotlight
National vs. Local
February 15th, 2016 · 1 Comment · budget policy, Congress, Fact Check, journalism, Washington
By Arthur Alpert About a week go I bumped into a former Albuquerque Journal reporter who said – I paraphrase – we’re essentially on target in our critiques of the daily but I write too often on national and global stories, not enough about the daily’s local coverage. My reaction to the “on target” was […]
Tags:Andrew Taylor·Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·cybersecurity·federal budget·food stamps·Jackie Calmes·Martin Crutsinger·Medicaid·Medicare·national debt·New York Times·Obama·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar·Social Security·Steven Mufson·Washington Post
Falsifying The News
October 16th, 2015 · 3 Comments · health care reform, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Gosh, I’ve been Albuquerque Journal watching on and off for five years now. Just checked. Seems I started in January, 2010.That’s surprising. So is my initial naïveté. I anticipated I would criticize both the political bias seeping into the news pages and the daily’s amateur, incompetent journalism. As it turns out, and […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·second-day lead·Washington Post
Follow-up: New Low in Pseudo-journalism, Misreporting the Iran Nuclear Deal
September 2nd, 2015 · 1 Comment · Fact Check, journalism, war and peace
By Arthur Alpert Last week, I demonstrated how the Albuquerque Journal is misreporting, egregiously so, the Administration’s nuclear deal with Iran, but warned you that “the True Believers have plumbed a new low in pseudo-journalism over the last few days.” The new low is the editors’ use of an Aug. 19 story from George Jahn […]
Tags:Associated Press·George Jahn·iran nuclear deal·Josh Marshall·Juan Cole·Max Fisher·Michael Coleman·Talking Points Memo·Vox
The Iran Nuclear Deal: True Believers Practicing Pseudo-journalism
August 26th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Fact Check, foreign policy, journalism, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Respectable newspapers build walls to ensure a separation between the owners’ political opinions and the news operation. That is why, to take a current example, nobody is much surprised when the N.Y. Times (establishment liberal) breaks the story that Hillary Clinton (establishment liberal) used a private email server. A newspaper lacking such […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Bradley Klaper·Cal Thomas·Deb Riechmann·Donald Trump·Henry "Hank" Paulsen·iran nuclear deal·J Street·Jewish Telegraphic Agency·Karen DeYoung·Roger Cohen·Ron Kampeas·Sec. of State John Kerry·Sen. Charles Schumer·Sen. Sander Levin·Sig Heckler·Talia Benamy·The New York Times·Washington Post
Politics Driving News Coverage: The TPP Story
June 29th, 2015 · No Comments · economy, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Halfway through “The Underpants”, the Carl Sternheim/Steve Martin farce at the Vortex (in which I have a small role), Versati, a poet, says to the government clerk, “I can’t believe that you believe what you believe!” I feel that way about the Albuquerque Journal, but must concede that management is deeply invested […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Dean Baker·fast track·free trade·Paul Krugman·The Underpants·TPP·Trans Pacific Partnership
Unsourced and Misleading: Who wrote mystery paragraph inserted into wire service Obamacare story?
June 11th, 2015 · 2 Comments · Fact Check, health care reform, journalism, Koch brothers, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Recently, I amused you (I hope) with a post on how the Albuquerque Journal has trained me, as Pavlov did his dogs, to rush to the computer whenever it publishes an Op Ed essay from a group named “Freedom” – something. Salivating, I turn from breakfast to Google for my reward – […]
Tags:Affordable Care Act·Alan Fram·Americans for Prosperity·Annenberg Public Policy Center·Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·FactCheck.org·Jim Kuhnhenn·John Boehner·Joseph Welch·Obamacare·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar·Sen. Joseph McCarthy·Vets4Energy