Entries Tagged as 'The New Yorker'

The Scandal of Casting Doubt on Climate Change

July 12th, 2013 · 3 Comments · energy policy, environment

By Denise Tessier When future generations look back on the scandals of our age, it’ll be the unchecked rise in global temperatures, not the Benghazi talking points, that infuriate them.– Ezra Klein, Washington Post Recently, I found a folder of articles I’d used as a troop leader to help my Junior Girl Scouts achieve their […]

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Undue Influence

May 27th, 2013 · 1 Comment · journalism, Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier “American colleges have become polarizing institutions,” read the headline on the Albuquerque Journal’s May 23 Op-Ed page. Such a claim, which was polarizing in itself, merited a glance to see who wrote it. It wasn’t labeled as written by a think tank researcher, but rather as by “Kevin Hassett, Los Angeles Times.” […]

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News in Itself: Backlash Against Heritage Foundation Report Makes Journal’s Front Page

May 9th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Fact Check, immigration, Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier What, to a longtime reader, could have been more astonishing than finding in the Albuquerque Journal a news story containing criticism about the Heritage Foundation? Answer: Seeing that wire service story on the Journal’s front page – and then seeing the Journal follow it up with its own staff-generated report the next […]

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Notes From A (Former) Newspaper Romantic

October 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert We interrupt my series of reports on the Albuquerque Journal’s sins against journalism because my eyes hurt. Sorry, that’s not true. What I mean to say is that I find the regular study of the Journal so dispiriting that I have to step away sometimes and refocus. The idea is to refresh […]

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