By Denise Tessier Like a perfect storm, three stories piled upon one another day after day this past week, wrenching national media attention from bombings, sensational crime and gun laws — taking space that should be used to cover pressing issues, like student loan debt and the continuing paucity of jobs. I’m sticking with my [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Eugene Robinson'
Benghazi! Benghazi!
May 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:501 (c) 4 applications·Aaron Schwartz·ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·AP records seizure·Benghazi hearings·Bradley Manning·congressional investigations·Deborah Jones·Declan Walsh·Denise Tessier·Doug Schulman·Eugene Robinson·government leaks·Gregory Hicks·Hillary Clinton·Internal Revenue Service·Margaret Sullivan·Sen. Elizabeth Warren·Steven Miller·tea party·Thomas Pickering·Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz·Victoria Nuland·whistleblowers
If Only It Was That Simple
April 29th, 2013 · No Comments · Fact Check, journalism
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 [...]
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Journalistic Sins
October 26th, 2012 · No Comments · journalism, role of government
By Arthur Alpert Today I was going to remind us that Albuquerque Journal editors remain masters of the misleading headline. Yes, they’ve done it again, putting a rubric atop a token liberal’s column that ignores the burden of his argument. But I’ve noted before how assiduously the headline writers work to defang (when, rarely, the [...]
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Another Puzzling Headline
January 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert An editor who writes headlines for the Journal’s Op Ed page cannot read. At least, I hope that’s the case, for the only other explanation for the headline on Eugene Robinson’s column Friday, Jan. 28, is lots uglier. (Link not available on Journal site.) I defy anybody to read Robinson’s essay and [...]
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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 [...]
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Ridicule 101?
August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert As I was saying the other day, journalism schools may benefit from reading the Albuquerque Journal. “Benefit” may be understatement though, as a description of the Journal’s gifts to the trade. Consider what New Mexico’s most widely distributed daily contributed Sunday, Aug. 22 – an entirely novel use for the headline! Eugene [...]
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