By Arthur Alpert I don’t pick up the Wall Street Journal regularly and cannot defeat its online pay wall, but I glommed an Embassy Suites free-to-guests issue at the Foundation for Open Government luncheon Wednesday, Oct. 5, took it home and read it cover-to-cover. How refreshing! The news pages were crisply written and I never […]
Entries Tagged as 'Wall Street Journal'
Speculations on the Journal’s Psyche
October 18th, 2016 · 1 Comment · journalism
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Donald Trump·Hillary Clinton·Matt Taibbi·Wall Street Journal·William Galston
The Facebook Data Center Story: Is it really a “Big Win” for New Mexico?
September 22nd, 2016 · 3 Comments · corporate welfare, economy, journalism
By Arthur Alpert As a citizen who has read the Albuquerque Journal’s reporting and editorializing on Facebook’s decision to build a data center in Los Lunas, I am skeptical. I suspect New Mexico’s embrace of that deal will end badly. But it’s a complex arrangement and there are some unanswered questions, so I’ll try to […]
Tags:Dan Boyd·data centers·data farms·Dave Swenson·Deepa Seetharaman·Facebook·Facebook's Los Lunas data center·goodjobsfirst.org·John Rath·Marie C. Baca·Mike Rogoway·NM's budget crisis·Paul Gessing·Portland Oregonian·Quentin Hardy·Rath Consulting·Wall Street Journal
Cognitive Dissonance
April 4th, 2015 · No Comments · journalism, war and peace
By Arthur Alpert I was listening to KUNM Radio several Friday mornings ago when Philip Connors, who wrote the highly praised “Fire Season”, recalled for interviewer Stephen Spitz his days as a Wall Street Journal reporter. When terrorists hit the World Trade Center, Connors said, he read his own newspaper and suffered “cognitive dissonance.” What […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Cal Thomas·David Ignatius·iran nuclear deal·Thomas Friedman·Wall Street Journal
More Journalistic Offenses of Commission and Omission
September 17th, 2014 · No Comments · economy, financial coverage, health care reform, inequality, journalism, polling
By Arthur Alpert Some days this gig is frustrating. No, that’s incorrect; it’s frustrating most days because I cannot decide if I should alert you to Albuquerque Journal management’s daily journalistic offenses of commission or its offenses of omission. Should I say the headline on Winthrop Quigley’s Sept. 14 UpFront column on commercial insurance rates […]
Tags:APS·Arthur Alpert·Brad Winter·Export-Import Bank·inequality·ISIS·Jon Swedien·Medicare·Obamacare·Standard and Poor's·Wall Street Journal·Winthrop Quigley
The Tactics of Offense and Defense: How the Journal Reshapes Healthcare News
May 15th, 2013 · No Comments · health care reform, journalism, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert What’s a saving grace? Well, an online dictionary says it’s “a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.” I was grappling with the question, you see, of whether – where healthcare reporting is concerned – Winthrop Quigley is the Albuquerque Journal’s saving grace. The answer is no, but […]
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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
Plundering Employee Pensions and Promoting Plutocracy
December 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment · economy, financial coverage, journalism, labor
By Arthur Alpert Boomers, I have read, feel nostalgic about Twinkies, Ding Dongs, and other Hostess company snacks. Me, I’m too old to partake of either the food or sentiment. So I’m perpetrating this third post on the Albuquerque Journal’s misreporting of Hostess’ dissolution only because there’s a new development that teaches us more about […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·bankruptcy·employee pension funds·George Will·Hostess Brands Inc.·Koch brothers·organized labor·Twinkies·Wall Street Journal
Calling for the Bludgeons: Union-bashing Corporate Lobbyist Finds Easy Access to Journal OpEd Page
December 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · journalism, labor
By Arthur Alpert How wrong can I be? I figured my post on the Hostess bankruptcy (Nov. 27) would be a one-shot, but that underestimated the story’s shelf life. Also, I failed to realize how ardently the Albuquerque Journal would use Hostess to promote its political agenda. Therefore, here’s an update on Twinkies and journalistic […]
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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 […]
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