By Arthur Alpert The Albuquerque Journal editorial on U.S. debt in the Wednesday, July 23, edition provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate how management distorts the political dialogue. It was yet another Journal warning that unless we cut the debt soon and the US learns to “live within its means,” there’s an “impending fiscal calamity” […]
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Distorting the Dialogue on Debt
July 24th, 2014 · No Comments · budget policy, economy, journalism
Tags:Arthur Alpert·budget·CBO·Congressional Budget Office·Dean Baker·debt·Joseph Stiglitz·Koch brothers·Paul Krugman·Rio Grande Foundation
Varying the Usual Recipe in Obamacare Coverage
February 14th, 2014 · No Comments · Fact Check, health care reform, journalism
By Arthur Alpert If you visit this site often, you know the Albuquerque Journal is less a newspaper than a restaurant where cooks follow several recipes in a daily effort to feed readers a diet of rightist advocacy. One favorite recipe begins with a ”news story,” often from the Associated Press Washington Bureau, that leans […]
Tags:ACA·Affordable Care Act·Andrew Taylor·Argus Hamilton·Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Calvin Woodard·CBO·Congressional Budget Office·Dana Milbank·George Will·Jonah Goldberg·Kevin Robinson-Avila·Obamacare·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
The Distortion Habit
March 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert I don’t know much about astrology, but I read once that Aries like me hate details or can’t deal with them. Deciders at the Albuquerque Journal don‘t suffer from my defect. Not content with big, front-page distortions and big omissions, the partisans in power habitually impose tiny tweaks to further their cause. […]
