Alpert's Truth

By Denise Tessier An Albuquerque Journal reader’s letter to the editor March 13, “Something Doesn’t Quite Add Up Here,”  challenged information contained in the caption for last week’s Journal photo of the new solar energy array – 1,001 panels that will provide electricity to the Fire Academy, animal shelter and city environmental offices on the city’s [...]

By Arthur Alpert As I hope you’ve noticed, I rarely critique the rank-and-file at the Albuquerque Journal. Their work is generally professional and sometimes excellent. Management, not staff, insists on carrying the editorial agenda into the news pages. But that management vs. staff distinction isn’t perfect. Look at the Saturday, March 10 Journal, specifically the [...]

By Arthur Alpert We often find the Albuquerque Journal’s editorial agenda hidden in its news columns; management’s opinions shine brightly once we’ve mined, polished and assayed them. Sometimes, though, there’s no need to dig, no ore, no agenda, just what’s on the surface. Such was the case Monday, March 4, where our daily [...]

By Denise Tessier The Albuquerque Journal, thanks to the Associated Press, got it right in reporting (March 2) the death of Andrew Breitbart by calling him an “online publisher and blogger” who “sometimes had to edit the facts” in his zeal to ignite political scandal. To its credit, the AP did not once refer to him [...]

By Denise Tessier I always hesitate to point out when a story is “missing” from the Albuquerque Journal, because it might be in the works. Delaying publication of stories was seldom done in the early days of my career in journalism. There had to be a compelling reason to hold off on a story because one of [...]

By Arthur Alpert Great minds think alike! Denise Tessier and Arthur Alpert arrived independently at posts about the Journal and the New Mexico Energy Forum. Now that you’ve read hers, here’s Arthur’s perspective. The Editor The Albuquerque Journal is nothing if not resourceful in promoting its editorial agenda outside its editorials. You know those identifiers at [...]

By Denise Tessier Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, who criticized President Obama for his handling of contraception coverage, nonetheless in a column that ran in Saturday’s Albuquerque Journal took up for the president in terms of the continuing personal attacks the controversy has spawned. As Dionne points out, when Obama isn’t a Muslim, as some opponents claim, he’s a [...]

By Denise Tessier An alert reader sent us an interesting tidbit today(Feb. 27) about the New Mexico Energy Forum. By the time this information is published on the web, the pro-energy, anti-cap-and-trade group will likely have cleaned up the incriminating evidence, so I’m copying and pasting the full contents of its About Us web page here: About Us Committed to Energy [...]

By Denise Tessier Rather than recount, from the beginning, this past month’s riot of male-only hearings and rhetorical backlash on the federal decision that coverage for women’s contraception should be part of a national health care policy, let’s jump right to the end result, reported via the Associated Press in the Albuquerque Journal Feb. 22: Republican presidential [...]

By Arthur Alpert I know the Albuquerque Journal’s stand on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United and I didn’t come to that knowledge by way of an editorial. Nor did I rely on a few Op Ed columns on the issue, though pro-Citizens United essays have outnumbered the others. What I know didn’t even come [...]