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 […]
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Let No Journalistic Malfeasance Go Unremarked
August 8th, 2016 · 1 Comment · journalism
Tags:Arthur Alpert·charter schools·Denise Tessier·Diane Ravitch·Donald Trump·fetal tissue·Lawrence Summers·Paul Krugman·Rick Nathanson·Roe v. Wade
The Rules for Covering Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid: Bad news gets page one, good news gets buried, and Big Pharma gets ignored entirely
November 23rd, 2015 · No Comments · health care reform, journalism
By Arthur Alpert “Premiums to rise for Medicare drug plan” was the headline Journal editors ran over an Associated Press story they front-paged today, Monday, Nov. 23. Of course, they ran it on the front page. There must be a rule at the Journal – anything negative, even potentially negative about Obamacare, Medicare or Medicaid […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Big Pharma·Center for Economic and Policy Research·Dean Baker·drug prices·Medicaid·Medicare·Obamacare·patent monopolies·Paul Krugman·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar·Richard Metcalf·Robert Reich·Saving Capitalism
Politics Driving News Coverage: The TPP Story
June 29th, 2015 · No Comments · economy, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Halfway through “The Underpants”, the Carl Sternheim/Steve Martin farce at the Vortex (in which I have a small role), Versati, a poet, says to the government clerk, “I can’t believe that you believe what you believe!” I feel that way about the Albuquerque Journal, but must concede that management is deeply invested […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Associated Press·Dean Baker·fast track·free trade·Paul Krugman·The Underpants·TPP·Trans Pacific Partnership
Journal Still Promoting Voodoo Economics
October 6th, 2014 · 3 Comments · budget policy, Congress, economy, journalism, tax policy
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 […]
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
Heritage Foundation Op Eds Are Flunking Fact Checks, but the Journal Looks the Other Way
August 8th, 2014 · 1 Comment · economy, Fact Check, journalism, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert This morning (Friday, Aug. 8) I was enjoying the Albuquerque Journal’s editorial on making food stamp recipients shape up (subtext, it’s entirely their fault) until they used one Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation as an expert witness. That’s when my amusement at the Ebenezer Scrooge performance gave way to – I […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Columbia Journalism Review·Craig Silverman·fact-checking·Heritage Action·Heritage Foundation·Kansas City Star·Los Angeles Times·Michael Hitzik·Miriam Pepper·Paul Krugman·Poynter Institute·Robert Samuelson·Salon·Stephen Moore
Distorting the Dialogue on Debt
July 24th, 2014 · No Comments · budget policy, economy, journalism
By Arthur Alpert The Albuquerque Journal editorial on U.S. debt in the Wednesday, July 23, edition provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate how management distorts the political dialogue. It was yet another Journal warning that unless we cut the debt soon and the US learns to “live within its means,” there’s an “impending fiscal calamity” […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·budget·CBO·Congressional Budget Office·Dean Baker·debt·Joseph Stiglitz·Koch brothers·Paul Krugman·Rio Grande Foundation
Samuelson’s Fables
August 27th, 2013 · 2 Comments · economy, financial coverage, journalism, role of government, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert Henny Penny, hit by a stray acorn, assumed the sky was falling and raced around spreading hysteria in the barnyard. It’s a folktale about a deluded fowl scaring the bejeebers out of the community. The obvious moral is, watch out for idiots flapping wings. Or jaws. The Albuquerque Journal’s favorite economics reporter, […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·austerity·economics·generational warfare·Joseph Stiglitz·Paul Krugman·Robert Samuelson
Credibility of Austerity Economics in Freefall Everywhere Except at the Journal
May 1st, 2013 · 5 Comments · budget policy, economy, financial coverage, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Pity the poor politicians who edit the Albuquerque Journal. It won’t be easy adjusting the narrative to fit the oligarchy’s new strategy, but soon they’ll do just that. The newspaper’s narrative (or line or editorial agenda) matters because at the Journal, it dictates what gets published – syndicated opinion, Op Ed opinion […]
Tags:American Enterprise Institute·Arthur Alpert·austerity·Carmen Reinhart·deficit crisis·Financial Times·John H. Makin·Ken Rogoff·Paul Krugman·Reinhart-Rogoff·Wall Street Journal
A Revealing Prism
March 4th, 2013 · 2 Comments · economy, financial coverage, journalism, labor, role of government, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert The Albuquerque Journal’s editorials on national issues are educational. • They reveal management’s political stance. • They identify the prism through which management views news. • They augur which stories, opinions and ideas the newspaper will publish and which will earn token appearances or none at all. Case in point – the […]
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