By Arthur Alpert I know what you are thinking. You saw the Albuquerque Journal Wednesday, Nov. 2, the issue featuring all-Hillary’s emails–all-the-time, and you figure the Journal is in the GOP’s corner. And you have other evidence. Like the previous day’s imaginative headline, “FBI inquiry into Clinton emails becomes key” over an AP story on […]
Entries Tagged as 'Donald Trump'
Partisanship Is Not the Problem
November 4th, 2016 · 7 Comments · journalism
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Charles Krauthammer·Dave Cargo·Donald Trump·Hillary Clinton·It's Even Worse Than It Looks·Michael Gerson·Michael Hiltzik·Norman J. Ornstein·Steve Bannon·Thomas E. Mann·Winthrop Quigley
Speculations on the Journal’s Psyche
October 18th, 2016 · 1 Comment · journalism
By Arthur Alpert I don’t pick up the Wall Street Journal regularly and cannot defeat its online pay wall, but I glommed an Embassy Suites free-to-guests issue at the Foundation for Open Government luncheon Wednesday, Oct. 5, took it home and read it cover-to-cover. How refreshing! The news pages were crisply written and I never […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Donald Trump·Hillary Clinton·Matt Taibbi·Wall Street Journal·William Galston
Like the Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Albuquerque Journal takes on “media bias”
October 6th, 2016 · No Comments · Fact Check, journalism
By Arthur Alpert It boggles the mind. Did you see it? I refer to the headline, “Charges of media bias have merit” atop an essay the editors at the Albuquerque Journal ran on the editorial page, prominently on the editorial page Sunday, Oct. 2. The Albuquerque Journal charging bias! Talk about the pot calling the […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Brent Bozell·David Duke·Donald Trump·Fox News·Glenn Kessler·Hillary Clinton·Howard Kurtz·Jay Ambrose·Lester Holt·media bias·Michael Coleman·Michelle Ye Hee Lee·Peggy Noonan·Presidential Debate 2016·Washington Post
Let No Journalistic Malfeasance Go Unremarked
August 8th, 2016 · 1 Comment · journalism
By Arthur Alpert So where do I start? That’s the question whenever I sit down at the iMac because every issue of the Albuquerque Journal begs for corrective action and ideally we should let no journalistic malfeasance go unremarked. Where do I start and (given that my time and energy are finite), which issues do […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·charter schools·Denise Tessier·Diane Ravitch·Donald Trump·fetal tissue·Lawrence Summers·Paul Krugman·Rick Nathanson·Roe v. Wade
A Self-Made Trap: Pity for the Commissars, Part Two
May 8th, 2016 · No Comments · journalism, Koch brothers
By Arthur Alpert As I write Thursday, May 6, Albuquerque Journal editors ask a good question at the top of the front page, “Is the GOP ready to follow Trump? I have a better question –is the Albuquerque Journal ready to follow Trump? The Journal has spent the entire primary season, after all, clobbering Mr. […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Donald Trump·Hillary Clinton·Jeb Bush·Koch brothers·Matea Gold·Michael Coleman·Mike McIntire·New York Times·Scott Walker·Ted Cruz·Washington Post
Pity for the Commissars
April 29th, 2016 · No Comments · journalism
By Arthur Alpert The Albuquerque Journal’s trespasses against journalism come so fast and furious there’s no keeping up. It requires that I identify and comment on issues every single day. It’s too much, I get confused trying to figure out what to tackle first, fail to cope and feel guilty. When will I get around, […]
Tags:ABQ Free Press·Arthur Alpert·behavioral health·Dan Vukelich·Donald Trump·Hillary Clinton·Jay McCleskey·Joline Gutierrez Krueger·KUNM-FM·Winthrop Quigley
Ignoring History
April 4th, 2016 · 2 Comments · journalism
By Arthur Alpert “The Journal is complicit is helping shrink women’s access to health services (and putting roadblocks in front of life-saving stem cell research) and appears to be doing so purposefully by putting on appearances of thoroughly covering an issue, while withholding critical information.” That was how Denise Tessier summed up her persuasive analysis […]
Tags:Age of Reason·Arthur Alpert·Denise Tessier·Donald Trump·George Orwell·John Stuart Mill·the Enlightenment·Victor Davis Hanson·William Faulkner
What’s behind the Journal’s anti-Trump campaign?
October 2nd, 2015 · 2 Comments · Fact Check, journalism, Koch brothers, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert Most mornings, I read the Albuquerque Journal over breakfast, then turn to the computer to sample the Washington Post and NY Times. The Post’s news stories are all over the lot, leaving me with no clue as to what the Post’s editorials will say. The same is true of the NY Times; […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Bloomberg·Christopher Flavelle·Donald Trump·Jeff Horwitz·John McCormick·Scott Walker·Tim Jones
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