By Arthur Alpert Back in the 1990s, when I co-owned and edited Prime Time, a monthly for New Mexican seniors, I regularly spoke to civic and senior organizations on “How the News Get Shaped.” Having worked in print and broadcast news (network, local and cable) I saw how the journalism differed depending on technology, how [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cal Thomas'
If Only It Was That Simple
April 29th, 2013 · No Comments · Fact Check, journalism
Tags:Amy Goodman·Arthur Alpert·Cal Thomas·Charles Krauthammer·E.J. Dionne·Eugene Robinson·George W. Bush·George Will·Jonah Goldbert·Robert Samuelson·Victor Davis Hanson
Setting the Record Straight on Hanna Skandera
March 8th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Education, NM Legislature, Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier The Albuquerque Journal finally ran a “For the Record” Friday (March 8) correcting two mistakes that were made in its editorial of a full week before (March 1). The editorial’s topic: support for confirmation of Hanna Skandera. The correction says the editorial, “Skandera has earned New Mexico’s support,” was wrong in saying [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Albuquerque Public Schools·Albuquerque Teachers Federation·Cal Thomas·charter schools·Denise Tessier·education reform·Florida education plan·Gov. Susana Martinez·Hanna Skandera·Hayley Heinz·Jeb Bush·Leslie Linthicum·National Education Association of New Mexico·Paul Gessing·Rep. Mimi Stewart·Rio Grande Foundation·Sharon Morgan·virtual schools
The Debt Ceiling Fiasco
August 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Now that the “crisis” has passed, a few words on the debt ceiling debacle and how the media – including the Journal – covered it. I think it’s hard for journalists these days. Afraid of being attacked as too conservative or too liberal, of being pigeonholed or lumped in with the likes [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Alan Reed·Albuquerque Journal·Associated Press·balance bias·Cal Thomas·Cambridge study·credit downgrade·debt ceiling crisis·FAA impasse·false equivalency·George Will·John Robertson·Kathleen Parker·Michael Coleman·Paul Krugman·Ruth Marcus·tea party·The Guardian·The Nation·Washington Post ombudsman·Winthrop Quigley
A Sane Report on Health Care Policy
May 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · health care reform
By Denise Tessier Winthrop Quigley has done it again: He has managed to get a sensible health care piece in the Albuquerque Journal. Judging from the headline, “Health-Care Reform Act Assailed,” one initially might think the article at the top of the Business page (D6) on April 29 was yet another Journal attack on “Obamacare”. [...]
Tags:Albuquerque Journal·Cal Thomas·headlines·health care reform·UpFront·Winthrop Quigley
Better To Be a Plagiarist Than a Reader of The New York Times
February 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier It appears we can now add “plagiarist” to the list of labels already ascribed to that conservative columnist of evangelical fervor, Cal Thomas. Media Matters for America is reporting that a newspaper in Temple, Texas decided not to run Thomas’ syndicated column this past week after an editor noticed suspicious similarity between it [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Cal Thomas·Gov. Bill Richardson·Gov. Susana Martinez·plagiarism·Temple Daily Telegram·The New York Times
Journalistic Inquiry vs Religious Certainty
February 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Vive la difference! I refer to two columns inspired by the ongoing uprising in Egypt – Ross Douthat’s in the New York Times on Sunday, Jan. 30 and Cal Thomas’s in the Albuquerque Journal, Tuesday, Feb. 1. Because they seemed to originate from different planets, I found myself digging into both to [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·Albuquerque Journal·Cal Thomas·Ross Douthat
A Curmudgeon’s Prediction: Newspapers Coming Back
January 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier For years, I’ve enjoyed Dale Dauten’s “Corporate Curmudgeon,” a King Features Syndicate column run by the Albuquerque Journal’s Business Outlook. Monday’s (Jan. 10) installment — which, according to the column, is Dauten’s second-to-last after more than 20 years — included a string of paragraphs summarizing some of what Dauten says he’s learned [...]
Tags:"death panels"·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Cal Thomas·Dale Dauten·Harrison Schmitt·Legal Notices·Leslie Linthicum·newspapers·Susana Martinez·Thom Cole·UpFront·Winthrop Quigley
Not Gonna Hold My Breath
September 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Months ago, the Albuquerque Journal ran a column by Cal Thomas – evangelical Christian, Fox News commentator, former VP of the Moral Majority – that gave a political platform to a kindred spirit, Newt Gingrich. (I’m sorry I cannot link you to it; Thomas has provided Gingrich with a megaphone and praised [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Cal Thomas·Eugene Robinson·Newt Gingrich
