By Arthur Alpert How ridiculous is journalistic balance? Well, back in my TV days, we would conjure up a documentary on air pollution; the first half would explain scientifically how it poisons living things while the other 50 percent argued that dirty air is good for us. Hey, it was perfectly balanced. Balance has lots […]
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Balancing Act
August 23rd, 2013 · 1 Comment · economy, immigration, role of government, Uncategorized
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Keeping the Minimum Wage Pot Boiling at the (Albuquerque) Journal of Opinion
February 16th, 2013 · 1 Comment · economy, journalism, labor, role of government, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert (Feb. 14, 2013) How can it be that the President wants to raise the federal minimum wage? Surely he’s aware that the Albuquerque Journal opposes it with every fiber of its being. I don’t mean editorially, although the paper has so editorialized. No, I mean the Journal is opposed in its (so-called) […]
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Resurrecting St. Pete: The Journal’s Domenici Story Decoded
December 20th, 2012 · No Comments · budget policy, journalism, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert A publisher coined the phrase “without fear or favor.” When Adolph Ochs acquired The New York Times in 1896, he promised readers it would be his “earnest aim to … give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved.” Obviously, the Albuquerque Journal takes a different […]
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Another Perspective on Heartland
September 11th, 2012 · No Comments · energy policy, environment, journalism
By Arthur Alpert My colleague Denise Tessier’s Sept. 6 post under the headline “Journal Gives Discredited Heartland a Podium” is more evidence she’s a superior journalist, a superior critic of journalism and an unbelievably kind human. She concludes that the newspaper “allowed itself to be used” when it ran a letter to the editor from […]
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Keeping the Record Straight
July 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Fact Check, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Here’s an addendum to my last post. The Albuquerque Journal waited a day but did publish Wednesday, July 18 the Washington Post’s analysis of the Heather Wilson-Martin Heinrich race for Senate. Well, most of it. The original piece was very long and Journal editors cut it. Having compared the original (on the […]
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