By Arthur Alpert All hail Nick Estes’ Op Ed column in the January 9 issue of the Albuquerque Journal. We won’t see its like for a long time. Under the rubric, “Yes, we DO know how to fix the economy”, Estes took syndicated columnist Robert Samuelson to task for writing the reverse. Estes explained: “The […]
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The Stories That Cannot Exist
January 17th, 2015 · 1 Comment · campaign finance reform, Congress, economy, financial coverage, health care reform, journalism, regulation
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The Real Driver
April 7th, 2014 · 5 Comments · inequality, journalism, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert There can be no doubt the Albuquerque Journal is a broadsheet of political advocacy rather than a conventional, old-fashioned, story-driven newspaper. And the strongest evidence for that proposition lies in what it won’t cover. The daily ignores broad swaths of American (and New Mexican) life, but for neatness sake, let’s confine ourselves […]
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