By Tracy Dingmann
Death panels – really?
The Journal resurrected that tired trope in an Aug. 23 editorial that had nothing to do with Sarah Palin or the erroneous phrase she helped foist upon the American public during the heated national debate over health care reform exactly one year ago.
The phrase was contained in the editorial, “Physician, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'health care reform'
The Journal Brings “Death Panels” Back
August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · health care reform
Tags:"death panels"·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Sarah Palin·Sen. Chuck Grassley·University of New Mexico Cancer Center
A Tale of Two Medicare Stories
August 19th, 2010 · No Comments · health care reform
By Arthur Alpert
Eons ago, I taught journalism at the undergraduate and graduate levels. If I were doing so today, I would embrace the Albuquerque Journal. How can the instructor go wrong with a class based, for example, on page A7 in the Sunday, Aug. 15 edition?
The page included two stories on health [...]
Tags:Associated Press·David Gulliver·doughnut hole·journalism school·McClatchey-Tribune·Medicare·Medicare Advantage·Richard Alonso-Zaldivar
Buying The Blue Cross Line
April 27th, 2010 · No Comments · health care reform
By Arthur Alpert
Identifying the Albuquerque Journal’s journalistic failures is easy. Figuring out why they happen, not so much.
Perhaps you can help me understand why Winthrop Quigley’s story on Blue Cross last Saturday was mislabeled.
With his deep knowledge of the health insurance industry, Quigley explained the company’s argument for raising premiums on its individual plans. Coming [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Blue Cross Blue Shield New Mexico·Winthrop Quigley
What NOT To Publish
April 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · health care reform
By Arthur Alpert
It was all over the national newspapers, TV, cable and talk radio, but if you get national news only from the Albuquerque Journal – now there’s a chilling thought! – you might not know that last week somebody aimed verbal threats and violence at Democratic legislators who voted “yes” on health care reform.
You [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·AP health care coverage·health care reform
A Word About Cal Thomas
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments · health care reform
By Tracy Dingmann
Ah, Cal Thomas – just one member of the deep bench of reliably conservative syndicated columnists run by the Albuquerque Journal. He’s been writing a long, long time. Maybe too long.
Because he misses the point entirely in his Aug. 15 column headlined “Only Obama Can Call Pants-on-Fire,” (print edition only) about the uproar [...]
The Public What?
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized, health care reform, polling
By Tracy Dingmann
Gwyneth Doland and Matt Reichbach of the New Mexico Independent took the Albuquerque Journal to task for Monday’s story and poll on which national issues New Mexicans feel are most important today.
The poll was done for the Journal by Research & Polling, Inc., an experienced and respected local firm that the Journal has [...]
Tags:Gyneth Doland·health care reform·Matt Reihbach·Nate Silver·NM Independent·polling·public option
Journalism 101
August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · health care reform
By Denise Tessier
Today’s lesson: Never use the word “only” because it is inherently editorializing.
Its use is a disservice to both the reader and the writer.
An example of the latter is what Tracy has pointed out in her latest post. The headline “Only 600 Allowed Into Town Hall” makes it sound like someone at the Journal thinks [...]
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Size Matters
August 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments · health care reform
By Tracy Dingmann
Here’s a quick nitpick on something I saw in the Aug. 21 edition of the Journal.
“Only 600 Allowed Into Town Hall,” reads the headline on a Metro & NM page story about Rep. Martin Heinrich’s health care town hall meeting that’s coming up Saturday at the University of New [...]
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Why Were Most Journal Readers Deprived of Jadrnak Health Care Column?
July 22nd, 2009 · 5 Comments · health care reform
By Denise Tessier
In writing Tuesday’s post about the Journal’s coverage of health care reform, Jackie Jadrnak was the health beat reporter I had in mind in saying other voices were needed in the debate.
Turns out, Jadrnak had an “UpFront” column of her own on July 19, the day the Sunday Journal was heavy on its [...]
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Tracking the Journal's Coverage of Health Care Reform
July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · health care reform
By Denise Tessier
Reading the Albuquerque Journal’s coverage over the last five days, one might think Arthur Alpert’s New Mexico Independent column Friday (July 17) lamenting the dearth of local-angle stories on health insurance/access/care had sparked an actual response on the part of the state’s largest daily.
But it’s clear from the plethora of stories since Friday [...]
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