Entries Tagged as 'climate change'

Fear and Loathing of ‘Agenda 21’

February 27th, 2013 · No Comments · environment, NM Legislature, role of government, Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier A non-binding resolution, passed at a United Nations conference more than 20 years ago, is suddenly a “threat to homes (and the) property of our middle-class” in New Mexico. That’s according to the column, “Agenda 21 threat to homes, property of our middle-class,” which got the top spot on the Sunday Journal’s [...]

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For Once, Not Hyping Up a Storm

October 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier It’s such an important event that the Albuquerque Journal Monday put a story about it on the front page, then gave two full pages – and five more stories – to its coverage inside. We’re not talking elections – although it certainly could affect next Tuesday’s results in terms of voting and [...]

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A Triumph of Omission

August 1st, 2012 · 1 Comment · energy policy, environment, journalism

By Arthur Alpert Credit the Albuquerque Journal with killing two birds with one stone. The “birds” are stories Journal management prefers not to cover because (I surmise) they contradict the newspaper’s editorial agenda. The first is the dangers of climate change or global warming as a result of human activity. The second is the political [...]

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The Case for No Longer Serving Up a Diluted Dish on Climate Change

July 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier There’s an old saying:” If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.” The Journal hasn’t exactly stayed out of the “kitchen” when it comes to reporting on global warming. As we’ve said before, national stories carried on the Journal’s pages regularly talk about the warming trend. And Journal science [...]

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Climate Change and the Unabomber

May 16th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier Last month’s Albuquerque Journal publication of the column, “Global Warming Is Just  Propaganda,” is still generating reader response, with nearly a full page of letters in Tuesday’s (May 15) Journal commenting both on that column (as we did ) and on the published rebuttal by scientist Mark Boslough . In between, a [...]

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‘Just Propaganda’

April 30th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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 [...]

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Predictable in Favoring the Pipeline

January 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier It’s pretty safe to predict that the Albuquerque Journal will respond to President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline with editorial criticism. The editorial did not run this morning (Jan. 20). Perhaps it will be saved for Sunday — the Journal’s highest circulation day — because it seems opining in favor of [...]

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Story Placement Clues Readers Into What the Journal Views as Important

January 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier Old-school journalism taught the “inverted pyramid” style – in which the most important aspect of a story was in the lead sentence, followed by facts that fleshed out the narrative in descending order of importance. The inverted pyramid was designed to leave less important details, no matter how colorful, toward the end. [...]

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A Story Clearly Worth Covering

April 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier This post might appear superfluous to regular readers of ABQJournalWatch.com’s sister site, Clearly New Mexico (a portal to which is carried in a box on the lower right side of this page). But for those who are not regular readers of Clearly, I’d like to point out a recent post worthy of [...]

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When Honesty Appears Missing From the Policy

March 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier It seems almost too easy to criticize the Albuquerque Journal for running yet another Marita K. Noon column, because we’ve pointed out her errors,  simplistic assertions and lack of expert credentials in the past. But the Journal’s Op-Ed (opposite editorial) page carries her again today, this time with a convoluted essay headlined [...]

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