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Cutting A Story in Half Is SO Not Cool

July 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
I couldn’t help but notice some shockingly selective editing in two nationally-generated stories the Journal ran recently on immigration.
The first example came on Monday, in the Associated Press story the Journal headlined “Symbol of Immigration Anger.” The version I’m referring to here is the heavily-edited one that ran in the Journal’s print [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It Was News – And It Was Excellent

February 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert
So blatant is the Albuquerque Journal’s politicizing of its news columns that dissecting it is shooting fish in a barrel. It’s a useful exercise, though, so I was going to discourse today on the editors’ passion for percussion, their drums of doom on the deficit – when – wham! bang! – it hit [...]

The Journal Belongs To History

January 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert
The Albuquerque Journal belongs to history.
Thanks to Richard Perez of the N. Y. Times for reminding me of that toward the end of his Jan. 17 story on new sources of news:
“For generations, owners who have little or no need to answer to shareholders have famously used their newspapers to pursue their political [...]

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 [...]

Hinky Headline

December 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Tracy Dingmann
Usually it’s my colleague Arthur Alpert who spots the often curious ways the Journal edits its wire copy stories.
But I wanted to jump in and say something about the headline on an Associated Press story on immigration that appeared in Wednesday’s Albuquerque Journal.
“Legalize Illegals, Lawmakers Say,” read the Journal-written headline on a [...]

Incompetence…or Ideology?

December 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert
This morning’s Albuquerque Journal featured a journalistic mess on the front page, below the fold.
This mess conflated two distinct issues. The headline, “Public Option Dead in Senate,” and story effectively merged the health reform plan the Senate is debating with a single-payer plan.
Single-payer is what the Obama Administration shoved off the table early, [...]

Journal Drops The Jobs Report Ball

December 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert
Touchdown!
I called it throwing the long ball, my Friday prediction that the Albuquerque Journal would “downplay” that morning’s positive news on unemployment in its next-day story.
I expected a completion, of course. But the Journal didn’t downplay the news – it buried it. No, that’s inaccurate. It erased the story.
Six points!
To recapitulate – Friday [...]

Arthur Double-Dog Dares The Journal

December 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert
As countless football teams have discovered, playing to protect a lead can backfire. You need to take risks. So here’s my long pass downfield – tomorrow (Saturday) the Albuquerque Journal will downplay today’s jobs report.
This morning the Labor Department reported the US economy lost only 11,000 jobs in November. The unemployment rate fell [...]