By Arthur Alpert I cannot be trusted. Last time, Dec. 10, in a post where I suggested the Albuquerque Journal has promoted Gov. Martinez into the “sacred cow” status Pete Domenici once occupied, I promised I would deal next with the daily’s “sourness, narrow-mindedness and ban on ideas the richest do not endorse.” Ah, but […]
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Christmas Surprises
December 23rd, 2015 · 1 Comment · journalism, Koch brothers
Tags:ABQ Free Press·Arthur Alpert·Gov. Susana Martinez·Heath Haussamen·Joe Monahan·Mark Oswald·Thom Cole
Carrying Water for the Right. . .and Other Blunders
May 3rd, 2015 · No Comments · campaign finance reform, climate change, environment, foreign policy, inequality, journalism
By Denise Tessier Ideas for ABQJournalWatch posts have far surpassed my time to write of late, and rather than let them get too moldy to use (as has often been the case in the past), the following are brief riffs on (fairly) recent Albuquerque Journal eyebrow raisers. It’s OK for Susana but Not the Dems […]
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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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