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Oil Production at Any Cost

June 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
I was wondering how the pro-drilling group CARE and its executive director, Marita K. Noon, would react to the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico. Thanks to the Albuquerque Journal, that question has now been answered.
Noon has had a month to watch the beyond-control oil geyser as it pollutes the waters [...]

Giving Big Play to Polls

May 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
If it weren’t for the glut of photos that accompanied it, one might have thought that governor’s race was over, judging from the literally over-the-top play a candidate-poll story received on the front page of this week’s Sunday Journal.
Splayed across the entire top half of the front-page news hole – above 72-point headline [...]

Polluting Page One

May 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
The word “venerable” traditionally has been ascribed to the Associated Press.
Yet, that’s not what comes to mind when reading the front page of today’s Albuquerque Journal.
In an “Analysis” piece on Page One this morning, an AP writer stretches to make a case for criticizing the Obama administration’s response to the Gulf Coast oil [...]

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 [...]

Atoning for Climate-Gate

December 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
Before we take a two-week hiatus for the holidays, I’d like to commend the Albuquerque Journal for recently publishing articles that atone somewhat for its running – just before the Copenhagen summit – the alleged climate change exposé now known as “Climate-Gate”.
Last month, the Journal was among more than 325 American newspapers that [...]

How Far Will Advertising Go?

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
The “To Our readers” note on A-2 of Saturday’s Albuquerque Journal wasn’t kidding when it brightly announced that the Entertainer TV schedule in the day’s paper was sporting a “new look.”
For the first time in its history, the Entertainer cover carried advertising. Three ads bordering two sides made up nearly 45 percent of [...]

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 problems with her [...]

Journal Reader: Noon's Energy Claim "Doesn't Add Up"

October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
This letter to the editor that appeared in Wednesday’s Albuquerque Journal is so interesting, I’m just going to reproduce it in full here.
The letter, from Journal reader Terry Goldman of Los Alamos, ran under the headline “Energy Claim Doesn’t Add Up:”
Marita K. Noon either made a serious writing error in her column, “Target [...]

The Journal Strikes Again: Noon Whistle

October 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier
The Journal’s done it again.
The Albuquerque Journal ran on today’s Op-Ed page a column by discredited columnist Marita K. Noon. This one’s entitled, “Target Redundant Costs First To Trim State Budget (subscription required).”
If you’re not familiar with Noon, you won’t get much help from the Journal in learning more about her. All that [...]