By Denise Tessier Based on the latest figures from the U.S. Labor Department, USA Today (and other news outlets) reported over the weekend that September’s unemployment rate had dropped below 6 percent for the first time since 2008, when George W. Bush left in his wake a destroyed economy that saw losses of a million […]
Entries Tagged as 'Micha Gisser'
Journal Still Promoting Voodoo Economics
October 6th, 2014 · 3 Comments · budget policy, Congress, economy, journalism, tax policy
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·corporate income tax rate·Denise Tessier·fiscal policy·International Monetary Fund·Kenneth Brown·Micha Gisser·Paul Gessing·Paul Krugman·Rep. Paul Ryan·Rio Grande Foundation·USA Today·voodoo economics
Gessing, Gisser and the Common Good
September 4th, 2014 · No Comments · Fact Check, journalism, role of government, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert I’m involved in a production of Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” opening Sept. 5 at the brand-new Vortex on Carlisle NE. Given its authorship, it’s no big surprise the play is funny, but in rehearsal I realized Martin also excels at making audiences feel intelligent. My colleague, Denise Tessier, has […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Denise Tessier·Koch brothers·Lee Fang·Margaret Sullivan·Micha Gisser·oil industry·Paul Gessing·Rail Runner·Republic Report·Rio Grande Foundation·Spaceport·Steve Martin·tax policy·William Jewell
Gessing Kills Two Birds With One Stone in Letter Criticizing Gisser
August 27th, 2014 · No Comments · budget policy, economy, financial coverage, journalism, labor, tax policy
By Denise Tessier It’s safe to expect that when a column by economist Micha Gisser appears in the Albuquerque Journal, a letter of rebuttal or critique soon will follow. Gisser’s latest, in Business Outlook on Aug. 18, actually prompted two refutations. What was unexpected was that one of the two critiques Monday (Aug. 25) came […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Business Outlook·Charlie Moore·Denise Tessier·Ellen Marks·Gov. Bill Richardson·Gov. Susana Martinez·Micha Gisser·Paul Gessing·Rio Grande Foundation·William Jewell
Balancing Act
August 23rd, 2013 · 1 Comment · economy, immigration, role of government, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert How ridiculous is journalistic balance? Well, back in my TV days, we would conjure up a documentary on air pollution; the first half would explain scientifically how it poisons living things while the other 50 percent argued that dirty air is good for us. Hey, it was perfectly balanced. Balance has lots […]
Tags:American Enterpriese Institute·Arthur Alpert·CATO·Dr. Deane Waldman·Gerry Bradley·Heartland Institute·Heritage Foundation·Kelly O'Donnell·Kenneth Brown·Manhattan Institute·Micha Gisser·Nick Estes·NM Voices for Children·Paul Gessing·Rio Grande Foundation·Robert Samuelson·Thomas Cole·Thomas Molitor
You Can’t Buy This Kind of Publicity – and Credibility
January 21st, 2013 · 2 Comments · budget policy, economy, Education, energy policy, environment, NM Legislature, regulation, tax policy
By Denise Tessier You can’t pay for advertising this good, and thanks to the Albuquerque Journal, the conservative, roll back-regulation-thumping Rio Grande Foundation doesn’t have to take out ads. On Saturday, RGF hit pay dirt with a full-blown news story on the Business page about its “unique, 21-day report on the state’s regulatory environment and […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Denise Tessier·Grover Norquist·Micha Gisser·Paul Gessing·Rio Grande Foundation·Thom Cole
Another Way To Block Health Care Reform: Nullification
October 25th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Micha Gisser’s columns in the Albuquerque Journal no longer carry the “Rio Grande Foundation fellow” tagline, but the RGF ideology is still there in the University of New Mexico economics professor’s writing, and the Journal is still giving him prominent play. In last week’s “Executive’s Desk” slot (Oct. 15) on A3 of […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·ACA·Albuquerque Journal·Alexander Stephens·Cornerstone Speech·Denise Tessier·health care reform·League of the South·Lew Rockwell·Llewllyn Rockwell·Ludwig von Mises Institute·Martin Luther King Jr.·Micha Gisser·neo-Confederate·nullification·Rio Grande Foundation·southern nationalism·states rights·Tenth Amendment·The Southern Patriot·Thomas E. Woods·Tom Woods·Winthrop Quigley
Keeping Up the Ideological Heat
July 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Heat wasn’t the only record-setter this summer. I’d wager the number of articles, letters and columns by the conservative Rio Grande Foundation and its national counterparts set a record for publication in the Journal this summer as well. Nearly every week, it seems, one can count on seeing Paul J. Gessing or […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·American Enterprise Institute·Carter Bundy·Denise Tessier·Dr. Deane Waldman·Jerry Ortiz y Pino·Kenneth Brown·Micha Gisser·Paul Gessing·Rio Grande Foundation·Santa Fe Reporter·The Heritage Foundation·Thomas Molitar·Weekly Alibi
Greasing and Oiling the Journal Narrative
November 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier I’d like to borrow a phrase aptly coined by my colleague, Arthur Alpert, when he wrote that the Journal has engaged in a “narrative” against solar energy (through its overkill running of Solyndra stories, casting a “guilt by association” pall on otherwise noncontroversial solar stories that pop up on business and news […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·cap-and-trade·Dan Boyd·false equivalency·fracking·Keystone XL Pipeline·Mancos Shale·Marita K. Noon·Micha Gisser·Mountain View Telegraph·oil and gas·oil profits·pit rule·Ray Powell·Rick Homans·Robert J. Samuelson·Verne W. Loose
Don't Blame the Journal
November 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Don’t blame the Albuquerque Journal. Almost everybody does it. I have heard it on the TV networks and NPR and in countless other publications using newsprint or the Web. People representing all shades of political opinion perpetrate it. It is the cockamamie idea that laissez-faire ideology is conservative. If (with George Orwell) […]
Tags:conservatism·economic policy·Kenneth Brown·libertarianism·Micha Gisser·New Mexico Voices for Children·Nick Estes·public policy·Rio Grande Foundation
Journal Readers Jump on Column by Right-Wing Economists
July 25th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Headlined, “Only Hope Is Undoing Obama’s Mess,” the guest column covered nearly a quarter of the Op-Ed page of the Albuquerque Journal Wednesday, July 20. Its subhead: “GOP must articulate to voters that we can’t take four more years.” It was no surprise that the column’s authors were Kenneth Brown and Micha […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·Albuquerque Journal·Darren White·economic policies·Kenneth Brown·Micha Gisser·Rio Grande Foundation·unions
