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Tea Party Rally Gets Big Assist From The Journal

April 14th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
Confused Albuquerque Tea Partiers got help from the Journal today in finding their way to the right tax protest on April 15.
In a article on the front of the Metro & NM section, Journal Assistant Politics Editor (that’s the first time I’ve ever even heard that term at the Journal, much less seen [...]

Op-Ed Page a Haphazard “He Said-She Said” Smorgasbord

February 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
I had been wondering when the Albuquerque Journal would offer up the story that appeared on the front page Monday, Feb. 22 about the mayor and the firefighters’ union.
What initially piqued my interest wasn’t the issue itself, but rather a column the Journal ran on its Op-Ed (opposite editorial) page on Feb. 15, [...]

Journal Shows Its Hand On Environmental Improvement Board

February 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
Did anyone else find the Albuquerque Journal’s description of the state Environmental Improvement Board as “seven people appointed by a governor” rather jarring?
The description appeared Feb. 20 in an editorial called “Board Overreaching On Global Warming.” The editorial took the position that it “shouldn’t be up to a relatively obscure, appointed board in [...]

At Least She Didn’t Call Him a Watermelon

February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
Two fascinating Journal stories on New Mexico’s oil and gas industry recently caught my eye – and two more got my attention only after someone else pointed them out (more on those later).
The first was the Sunday A1 article “New Mexico’s Emissions Battle: Some Question Rule Maker’s Environmental Ties.”
What grabbed me first was [...]

Playing Fair With The Rail Runnner

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
Useful information…not rhetoric.
That’s what the two stories about the New Mexico Rail Runner in the Jan. 24 edition of the Albuquerque Journal contained.
The stories came in the wake of the Rio Metro Regional Transit District’s announcement that it will have to end weekend service if the state doesn’t come up with more money [...]

Submit At Your Own Risk

January 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
Did anyone else notice the jarring headline on that Dec. 21 guest opinion piece (subscription required) on the food tax by Voices for Children policy director Bill Jordan?
In it, Jordan argued against the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce’s position that reviving the food tax would be a good way for state government to [...]

Drug Card Announcements a Gratuitous Overdose of Information

November 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
“It’s free, available to every New Mexican and just might save you money on your prescription drugs.”
That’s the lead paragraph of a clear, engaging news story that appeared prominently at the top of the Metro & NM Section on A6 of the Nov. 2 Albuquerque Journal. The story written by Rivkela Brodsky – [...]

A Watchdog Deferred

September 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
I have written before about what I and many other old-school newspaper journalists think is the troubling coziness between the Albuquerque Journal and the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce.
That’s because it bothers me to see the paper enter into any kind of relationship that looks like it might [...]

Too Cozy for Comfort

July 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
My colleague Denise Tessier writes about the new partnership between the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and the Albuquerque Journal today and calls it “a little cozy.”
I’ll say. The chamber bought two full pages in the Journal‘s A1 section and filled them full of glowing copy about events and awards and messages along [...]

Sticky Business

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
The first installment of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce’s venture with the Albuquerque Journal, reported by Tracy Dingmann on Clearly New Mexico last week, made its debut today (July 13, A-3 and A-4).
The good news for journalism is that the Chamber’s “Business Plan” looks like an ad, not an advertorial, with the [...]