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Entries from April 25th, 2011
Alms for the Rich
April 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert That bill putting some light on the process by which insurance companies (like Blue Cross Blue Shield) raise rates is law, thanks to Governor Martinez’s signature. Before that happened, however, the Albuquerque Journal published a professional, useful, funny and revealing story. Let’s enjoy and parse Deborah Baker’s April 7 account of dueling [...]
Tags:Blue Cross Blue Shield·health insurance rate review·Rio Grande Foundation·SB208
Journal Should Come Clean About Guest Writer's Identities
April 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann We at Journal Watch have written many times about the Journal’s failure to completely and fairly identify authors of guest opinion pieces printed on the paper’s editorial page. Why is this important? Because failing to disclose key facts about the writer and her or her associations deprives readers of information they need [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Ira Robinson·New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission
In Kirtland Spill, The Journal Learns the Limits of the Martinez Administration's Pledge for Transparency
April 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann An editorial in the Sunday Journal made it official: the Journal has finally discovered the limits of our new Governor’s pledge to bring unprecedented transparency to the state’s top office: (Read “Keep Data Flowing on Water Contamination”). Here’s the background: For months, Journal reporters have been trying to nail down the details [...]
Tags:Gov. Susana Martinez·Kirtland jet fuel spill·New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act·transparency in government
Journal Inexplicably Supports Gov's Risky Gamble on Unemployment Fund
April 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann I’m still not quite sure how they did it. But somehow, yesterday (April 5), the Journal editors managed to craft an editorial that supports Gov. Susana’s Martinez’s risky plan to veto a moderate increase in the amount New Mexico employers pay to the unemployment fund – in the face of the very [...]
A Story Clearly Worth Covering
April 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier This post might appear superfluous to regular readers of ABQJournalWatch.com’s sister site, Clearly New Mexico (a portal to which is carried in a box on the lower right side of this page). But for those who are not regular readers of Clearly, I’d like to point out a recent post worthy of [...]
Tags:Albuquerque Journal·ALEC·American Legislation Exchange Council·Clearly New Mexico·climate change·Gov. Bill Richardson·Gov. Susana Martinez·House Joint Memorial 24·Rep. Tim Lewis·Rio Grande Foundation·Small Business-Friendly Task Force·template legislation·William Cronon
Journal Slips Up: Contrary Idea Gets Out
April 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert In the spirit of public service, I hereby alert the Albuquerque Journal’s bosses to a flaw in their system. They’ve failed to monitor the regular, syndicated “Money & Markets” page (or monitor it with sufficient rigor) to edit out unacceptable content. So ideas apt to raise questions about our system are getting [...]
Tags:Howard Rosen
