The Journal’s Jihad

The Albuquerque Journal’s bizarre jihad against the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is alive and well.  Following Independence Day, the state’s paper of record conveniently breached the firewall between its news section and its editorial section, yet again, as it circled back to “cover” the nonprofit sector in New Mexico.
By now, those familiar [...]

The Arc of the Journal

Efforts to reform the nation’s ailing health system – or non-system as it were – are dominating news headlines.  Yet, if you rely on the Albuquerque Journal (the state and city’s “paper of record”), you’d probably have a rather skewed notion of the parameters of the health care debate.
Turns out I’m not the only one [...]

No Speech for You!

With each passing day, life inside the confines of the Albuquerque Journal must be getting weirder and weirder.  In addition to having little in the way of a firewall between their political agenda and their news reporting (and in some cases openly flaunting this journalistic taboo), the Albuquerque Journal has now anointed itself the sole [...]

Three Times The Journal

Once is a mishap, twice is a coincidence, but three times makes for a pattern.  And that’s three times in the past three weeks.
I’m of course referring to the Albuquerque Journal and their incessant melding of the paper’s political agenda with its news reporting.
The Journal was at it again this week, publishing a story about [...]

There They Go Again

In a post earlier this week, I was critical of the Albuquerque Journal – particularly their editors – for willfully blurring the line between the reporting of news and the issuance of opinions on their editorial pages.
This is a persistent problem at the Journal, a problem that has been well documented.
As if on cue, the [...]

City Charter Task Force: What the Journal Won’t Tell You

This week’s editorial diatribes masquerading as new coverage of the Charter Revision Task Force were just the latest of many examples of the Journal’s focused attack on nonprofits. We have no issue with the Journal editorializing about whatever it wants – on its editorial page. That is, in fact, the job of an editorial page. But when that perspective drives the news reporting, we need to call them out for it.

The Media Game has Changed

If it’s Friday, it must be time to connect the dots after a particularly tumultuous week.
A couple of local institutions took major hits – not the least of which was the governor’s office.  For starters, the Washington Post suggested that Gov. Bill Richardson’s days on the national stage may be over.
Whether anyone should ever count [...]