Entries Tagged as 'Mountain View Telegraph'

Greasing and Oiling the Journal Narrative

November 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier I’d like to borrow a phrase aptly coined by my colleague, Arthur Alpert, when he wrote that the Journal has engaged in a “narrative” against solar energy (through its overkill running of Solyndra stories, casting a “guilt by association” pall on otherwise noncontroversial solar stories that pop up on business and news [...]

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“Big Thump Thursday”

November 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier Those in the business have long been aware that the Thanksgiving edition of the Albuquerque Journal is the heaviest, thickest paper bundle of the year. Historically, that’s always been the case because the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year, and advertisers literally go heavy on the inserts [...]

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Quick Takes

November 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier An inward groan was my reaction to the opinion column headline, “’Bama’s Immigration Law Backfires in Fields” in the Albuquerque Journal (Oct. 26). Now accustomed to articles and headlines blaming President Obama for all sorts of things, it appeared at first glance this was another attack – and abbreviating the name as [...]

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Newspapers Remain Source of Local News

October 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier The theme of National Newspaper Week (Oct. 2-8) is “Newspapers – the No. 1 source of local news.” One of two local weeklies serving communities east of Albuquerque – in this case, the Mountain View Telegraph, sister publication of the Albuquerque Journal – brought this to readers’ attention in an editorial Sept. [...]

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When a column warrants a warning label

October 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier To piggyback on Tracy’s latest post just before this one: This morning’s Mountain View Telegraph (sister paper to the Journal) carries yet another Marita Noon column, this one entitled “Climate Change Is Obama’s Iraq.” The Telegraph is running her column with eyes wide open. In other words, it is well aware of the [...]

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Dishonest column calls journalistic standards into question

September 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann The director of a New Mexico sportsmen’s group says he is having no luck getting a correction issued for an erroneous column that recently ran in the Mountain View Telegraph. On Aug. 27, the Telegraph ran an guest opinion column on its editorial page that had previously been taken down from two [...]

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