By Arthur Alpert Don’t tell me the Albuquerque Journal is not wonderful in its fashion. Not journalistically, of course, but in its tireless efforts skew the news to fit its agenda. Only the other day, you may remember, I was pointing out how the editors kinda, sorta downplayed a Dan Boyd story that – because [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Rio Grande Foundation'
The West, Texas Explosion: A Horrific Lesson on Lax Regulatory Oversight
April 29th, 2013 · No Comments · role of government, Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier At the risk of sounding insensitive about the bombings in Boston (which would not be true), I could not help but compare, from the outset, how that event was covered by both national media and the Albuquerque Journal to the way the West, Texas fertilizer explosion was played. Because the former was [...]
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Island of Influence: Report Details Impact of Koch-funded Donors Trust in New Mexico
March 10th, 2013 · 2 Comments · environment, journalism, role of government, tax policy, voting rights
By Arthur Alpert Remember when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refused to “recognize” China because he disapproved of its Communist government? A wedding of stupidity and arrogance was sufficient to wipe a colossus from the world atlas. The Albuquerque Journal’s inability to recognize the existence of a continent of the wealthy – where cash [...]
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Setting the Record Straight on Hanna Skandera
March 8th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Education, NM Legislature, Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier The Albuquerque Journal finally ran a “For the Record” Friday (March 8) correcting two mistakes that were made in its editorial of a full week before (March 1). The editorial’s topic: support for confirmation of Hanna Skandera. The correction says the editorial, “Skandera has earned New Mexico’s support,” was wrong in saying [...]
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Keeping the Minimum Wage Pot Boiling at the (Albuquerque) Journal of Opinion
February 16th, 2013 · 1 Comment · economy, journalism, labor, role of government, Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert (Feb. 14, 2013) How can it be that the President wants to raise the federal minimum wage? Surely he’s aware that the Albuquerque Journal opposes it with every fiber of its being. I don’t mean editorially, although the paper has so editorialized. No, I mean the Journal is opposed in its (so-called) [...]
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You Can’t Buy This Kind of Publicity – and Credibility
January 21st, 2013 · 2 Comments · budget policy, economy, Education, energy policy, environment, NM Legislature, regulation, tax policy
By Denise Tessier You can’t pay for advertising this good, and thanks to the Albuquerque Journal, the conservative, roll back-regulation-thumping Rio Grande Foundation doesn’t have to take out ads. On Saturday, RGF hit pay dirt with a full-blown news story on the Business page about its “unique, 21-day report on the state’s regulatory environment and [...]
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Resurrecting St. Pete: The Journal’s Domenici Story Decoded
December 20th, 2012 · No Comments · budget policy, journalism, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert A publisher coined the phrase “without fear or favor.” When Adolph Ochs acquired The New York Times in 1896, he promised readers it would be his “earnest aim to … give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved.” Obviously, the Albuquerque Journal takes a different [...]
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Another Way To Block Health Care Reform: Nullification
October 25th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Micha Gisser’s columns in the Albuquerque Journal no longer carry the “Rio Grande Foundation fellow” tagline, but the RGF ideology is still there in the University of New Mexico economics professor’s writing, and the Journal is still giving him prominent play. In last week’s “Executive’s Desk” slot (Oct. 15) on A3 of [...]
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Occasionally Serving The Public Interest
October 18th, 2012 · No Comments · budget policy, economy, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Every once in a while, the Albuquerque Journal becomes a useful organ of information, hinting at what it might be were management to abandon the practice of advocating its editorial agenda in the so-called news columns. I refer to Dana Priest’s long takeout on the B61 bomb, “the oldest weapon in America’s [...]
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Another Perspective on Heartland
September 11th, 2012 · No Comments · energy policy, environment, journalism
By Arthur Alpert My colleague Denise Tessier’s Sept. 6 post under the headline “Journal Gives Discredited Heartland a Podium” is more evidence she’s a superior journalist, a superior critic of journalism and an unbelievably kind human. She concludes that the newspaper “allowed itself to be used” when it ran a letter to the editor from [...]
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