By Denise Tessier Like a perfect storm, three stories piled upon one another day after day this past week, wrenching national media attention from bombings, sensational crime and gun laws — taking space that should be used to cover pressing issues, like student loan debt and the continuing paucity of jobs. I’m sticking with my [...]
Entries Tagged as 'tea party'
Benghazi! Benghazi!
May 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:501 (c) 4 applications·Aaron Schwartz·ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·AP records seizure·Benghazi hearings·Bradley Manning·congressional investigations·Deborah Jones·Declan Walsh·Denise Tessier·Doug Schulman·Eugene Robinson·government leaks·Gregory Hicks·Hillary Clinton·Internal Revenue Service·Margaret Sullivan·Sen. Elizabeth Warren·Steven Miller·tea party·Thomas Pickering·Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz·Victoria Nuland·whistleblowers
Fear and Loathing of ‘Agenda 21’
February 27th, 2013 · No Comments · environment, NM Legislature, role of government, Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier A non-binding resolution, passed at a United Nations conference more than 20 years ago, is suddenly a “threat to homes (and the) property of our middle-class” in New Mexico. That’s according to the column, “Agenda 21 threat to homes, property of our middle-class,” which got the top spot on the Sunday Journal’s [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Agenda 21·Albuquerque Journal·American Policy Center·climate change·Denise Tessier·Glenn Beck·GOP Platform·Harriet Parke·John Birch Society·Koch brothers·Media Matters·Rep. Tom Anderson·salon.com·Sarah Cypher·sustainability·tea party·Tom DeWeese·United Nations Rio Declaration
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 [...]
Tags:Adolph Ochs·Alan Greenspan·Arthur Alpert·CATO·Denise Tessier·fiscal cliff·Heartland Institute·Heritage Foundation·laissez-faire·libertarian·Manhattan Institute·Marita K. Noon·New York Times·Paul Gessing·Rio Grande Foundation·Sam Nunn·tax policy·tea party·William Hoagland
The Curious Tweet by Marita K. Noon
May 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier “Interesting that Marita Noon would tweet this story exposing what her ilk are up to,” a colleague wrote in an email. Interesting – and curious — indeed. In her usual simplistic style, extractive industry booster and Albuquerque Journal column contributor Marita K. Noon (who uses the Twitter handle “energyrabbit”), tweeted just a [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·Albuquerque Journal·American Tradition Institute·American Wind Energy Association·Americans for Prosperity·Checks and Balances Project·clean energy·conservative think tanks·Denise Tessier·Gabe Elsner·Heartland Institute·John Locke Foundation·Koch brothers·Marita K. Noon·Peter Kelley·tea party·The Guardian·wind energy
Otherwise Occupied
October 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier When the now-global “Occupy Wall Street” movement began spreading outside New York City at the start of this month, I was otherwise occupied. I was writing about the Albuquerque Journal’s lack of reporting on another national movement gone local, complaining that the Journal’s coverage of local protestors taking part in the national [...]
Tags:(Un)occupy Albuquerque·ABQ Journal Watch·Albuquerque Journal·Occupy Las Cruces·Occupy Wall Street·postal workers·tea party·Weekly Alibi
The Debt Ceiling Fiasco
August 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Now that the “crisis” has passed, a few words on the debt ceiling debacle and how the media – including the Journal – covered it. I think it’s hard for journalists these days. Afraid of being attacked as too conservative or too liberal, of being pigeonholed or lumped in with the likes [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Alan Reed·Albuquerque Journal·Associated Press·balance bias·Cal Thomas·Cambridge study·credit downgrade·debt ceiling crisis·FAA impasse·false equivalency·George Will·John Robertson·Kathleen Parker·Michael Coleman·Paul Krugman·Ruth Marcus·tea party·The Guardian·The Nation·Washington Post ombudsman·Winthrop Quigley
Deficit Switcheroo
December 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Maybe it’s because I’m still doing my bit in that holiday fable, “White Christmas” at ALT, or maybe it’s the season. But I continue to feel kindly toward my fellow humans – including the top editors at the Albuquerque Journal. What a hard road they travel daily! Most newspaper editors look at [...]
Tags:deficit·Gilda Radner·Jim DeMint·Obama-GOP tax deal·Pete Domenici·Sarah Palin·spending·tea party
The Koch Brothers: Corporate Wizards of Oz
August 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert The Aug. 30 New Yorker story “Covert Operations,” Jane Mayer’s chronicle of the Koch brothers’ “war against Obama,” is worth reading. Mayer may overstate the power of those wealthy far right activists, but she does support her hypothesis with evidence and – here’s our local angle – the article casts some (incidental) [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Americans for Prosperity·Charles Koch·David Koch·FreedomWorks·Jane Mayer·Paul Gessing·Rio Grande Foundation·tea party·The Cato Institute
Chasing Down The Libertarian Angles – Or Not
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Arthur Alpert Because both the Tea Party movement and the influence of libertarian economics are growing, the press is, in general, paying attention. Never more so than after Rand Paul, a libertarian with Tea Party backers, won the Kentucky Senatorial primary last week. That was certainly the case in the N.Y. Times and Washington [...]
Tags:ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·libertarians·Rand Paul·tea party
A Grain of Tea
March 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
By Tracy Dingmann My subject today is a guest editorial by Micha Gisser and Kenneth Brown which appeared in the paper on Feb. 21. The op-ed contained harsh criticism of President Barack Obama’s economic initiatives. The Journal identified Gisser as a Professor Emeritus of economics at UNM, and Brown was noted as a retired senior [...]
Tags:Marita Noon·Micha Gisser·Rio Grande Foundation·tea party
