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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Attorney General Gary King is cracking down on the seething, Mafioso cesspool in New Mexico by taking a trip to Italy next week. Granted, King has been working with law enforcement officials from Mexico as of late to combat crime that is trickling over the border, yet is it really necessary to go all the [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I am remiss in not posting this sooner – visiting family and the holiday weekend threw me a little out of sorts. Last Friday, New Mexico Independent commentator Arthur Alpert penned an interesting piece on media bias. The final half of the commentary focuses on a recent Albuquerque Journal story regarding President Obama’s recent visit [...]
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