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False Equivalency Shifts Into High Gear

October 11th, 2013 · 1 Comment · economy, health care reform, journalism, role of government, tax policy, Washington

By Arthur Alpert I must break the habit of understatement. In that last post, I mean, where I wrote the Albuquerque Journal was guilty of false equivalence and worse, in playing the shutdown story as a partisan divide where the parties are almost equally to blame and solutions lie in negotiations aimed at meeting in […]

National News as Appetizer: Small Bites Leave Reader Looking for More

March 19th, 2013 · 1 Comment · budget policy, Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier A friend once complained heartily to me that the Albuquerque Journal wasn’t worth reading because it didn’t have enough national news. I disagreed on the grounds local papers should focus on local news – anything national was gravy. Lack of national news could be a moot point today, when local news can […]

Resurrecting St. Pete: The Journal’s Domenici Story Decoded

December 20th, 2012 · No Comments · budget policy, journalism, tax policy

By Arthur Alpert A publisher coined the phrase “without fear or favor.” When Adolph Ochs acquired The New York Times in 1896, he promised readers it would be his “earnest aim to … give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved.” Obviously, the Albuquerque Journal takes a different […]

There’s No Excuse for Journal’s One-sided Account of Hostess Liquidation

November 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · economy, Fact Check, financial coverage, journalism, labor, Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert This post begins as a tale of two headlines. It will end with an unfunny joke. The Albuquerque Journal headline on the Business Page Saturday, November 17, told us: “Workers’ Strike Proves Fatal to Hostess” The Wall Street Journal headline on the front page that same day read: “Twinkie Maker Hostess To […]

Samuelson’s Confused Commentary about Government Jobs

October 30th, 2012 · No Comments · economy, role of government

By Arthur Alpert I’m on top of the world, swingin’ on a rainbow… On the heels of my musings on the Albuquerque Journal’s low intellectual level, the editors printed another of Robert Samuelson’s syndicated columns. The timing of this vacuous essay is the frosting on my cake, the cherry on my sundae, the exclamation point […]

And Yo Mama’s Ugly, Too!

March 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann Back in Ye Olden Tymes when I was in journalism school at the University of Wisconsin, I had a notoriously tough and feared professor who had worked at the New York Times. The class was called something like “Advanced Editorial Writing,” and I loved it. One of many things I remember about […]

Paul The Octopus Trumps Pharma Fraud

October 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert News judgment is famously subjective, but that doesn’t mean you cannot question it. Often there’s a pattern involved, so it’s easy to show how the Albuquerque Journal’s agenda warps its news coverage. Even, that is, with stories that aren’t there. Take, for example, the New York Times lead story Wednesday, Oct. 27 […]

The Separation of News and Opinion

August 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann We have written here before on Journal Watch about the time-honored separation of news coverage and editorial opinion to which – thankfully – most American newspapers still adhere. Why is this separation important? Well, for newspapers that tout themselves as objective, keeping a firewall between news stories and the opinion page ensures […]