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Samuelson’s Fables 27 Aug 2013 | 04:14 pm
By Arthur Alpert Henny Penny, hit by a stray acorn, assumed the sky was falling and raced around spreading hysteria in the barnyard. It’s a folktale about a deluded fowl scaring the bejeebers out of t...
Balancing Act 23 Aug 2013 | 04:11 pm
By Arthur Alpert How ridiculous is journalistic balance? Well, back in my TV days, we would conjure up a documentary on air pollution; the first half would explain scientifically how it poisons living...
ALEC Is in New Mexico, But Only Marginally in the Albuquerque Journal 22 Aug 2013 | 02:52 am
By Denise Tessier Because the Albuquerque Journal has the resources – a team of investigative reporters and excellent politics and government reporters – I have been waiting for the state’s leading da...
The Secret Tamaya Meeting: A National Story in the Making? 10 Aug 2013 | 04:37 am
By Denise Tessier As mentioned in a previous post, Susana Martinez meeting secretly with two of the GOP’s top national leaders was a story that warranted Page One, but was buried in the Albuquerque Jo...
Washington Post Sale Prompts Question About Another Family-Owned Newspaper 9 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
By Denise Tessier “In one fell swoop, the era of family owned newspapers seemed to end while the new era — in which billionaire tech moguls jump on print properties for a relative pittance — seemed mo...
Fair Warning: Obamacare ‘PR Wars’ Commence 8 Aug 2013 | 04:14 pm
By Denise Tessier At least Albuquerque Journal readers were warned. “Obamacare duel erupts into intense public-relations war,” was the headline on a small story at the page bottom in the Sunday Dimens...
Weiner 67, McDonnell 0 5 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
By Arthur Alpert I hope you are as pumped as I am about the Albuquerque Journal’s improvements; you can read the newspaper’s website on computers, tablets and smart phones and add apps for the digital...
‘Burying’ the Death Spiral of the American Dream 1 Aug 2013 | 05:12 pm
By Denise Tessier On a slower news day, this story might have been – should have been – on the front page of the Albuquerque Journal: Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty ...
Pretend News and the Journal’s War on Obamacare 30 Jul 2013 | 04:48 pm
By Arthur Alpert Was Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar on vacation? That was my guess on reading the Albuquerque Journal’s latest anti-Obamcare editorial camouflaged as news Sunday, July 21, because somebody el...
Controversial Photos, Art and Other Loose Ends 25 Jul 2013 | 04:37 pm
By Denise Tessier Saying it was responding to reader criticism, the Albuquerque Journal provided a service in running prominently (on A2, July 16) a “recent” photo of Trayvon Martin, which it placed s...
