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Half A Headline?

April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
Usually it’s my colleague Arthur Alpert who catches the often-telling differences between how the Journal edits Associated Press stories and headlines, compared to how other papers run them.
This time I’m going to take a crack at it.
So check this out: The Journal ran an Associated Press story about the new health care reform [...]

‘Fanning the Flames’

April 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
Like my colleague, Arthur Alpert, I too have been concerned the past week over the Albuquerque Journal’s partisan selectivity regarding stories about the escalating threats and violence that followed passage of historic health care reform. I’d like to piggyback on his accurate assessment because I don’t think the ugly craziness is going away [...]

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 [...]

The Journal’s War On Health Care Reform Drags On

March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert
Sunday’s Albuquerque Journal continued its war on health care reform in an editorial with this amazing sentence:
“The legislation continues to be unpopular, no doubt made more so by the backroom deals and sleight of hand used to get it passed and Republicans are certain to take advantage of the low approval numbers leading [...]

Bogus “Trends” Story Part of Journal’s Health News Coverage

March 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
Ah, the beloved trends piece. Like the time-honored weather story and the local candidate Q & A, it is but one of many mandatory products that fill the pages of a daily newspaper.
Even though most people tend to go elsewhere for entertainment news now, local newspapers still include trends stories as one of [...]

The Distortion Habit

March 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert
I don’t know much about astrology, but I read once that Aries like me hate details or can’t deal with them. Deciders at the Albuquerque Journal don‘t suffer from my defect. Not content with big, front-page distortions and big omissions, the partisans in power habitually impose tiny tweaks to further their cause.
Take, for [...]

Blatantly Partisan Purposes

March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert
Wrong again!
I believed the Albuquerque Journal’s political campaign against health care reform – in its “news” pages as well as Op Eds and editorials – could not become more blatant.
Silly me.
Here’s the big headline on the front page Thursday, March 18:
“Premiums Likely to Go Higher”.
Over that is a rubric in red identifying the [...]

When Honesty Appears Missing From the Policy

March 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
It seems almost too easy to criticize the Albuquerque Journal for running yet another Marita K. Noon column, because we’ve pointed out her errors, simplistic assertions and lack of expert credentials in the past.
But the Journal’s Op-Ed (opposite editorial) page carries her again today, this time with a convoluted essay headlined “Carbon Tax [...]

Name-Calling Dismisses the Good Work Being Done at the Journal

January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
Former Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca has an interesting New Year’s proposition for his blog readers: Come up with a derogatory name for the Albuquerque Journal. And don’t send him “Albuquerque Urinal” as a suggestion, he says, because it’s been done before. (It certainly has.)
His rationale for dissing the state’s leading newspaper is Thom [...]

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 [...]