The Journal is New Mexico's largest daily newspaper. It's also our best known paper. It covers events throughout the state. However, because it tries to cover the whole state plus national and international news too, it's local news coverage suffers a bit. The Journal is not alone in this. For example, the Dallas paper (which locals jokingly call "The Dallas Morning Snooze") has had similar problems for years. In this writer's opinion, too much of the Journal's content comes from wire services or sister publications owned by the same mega-media-corp that ate the Journal for lunch. Far too little comes from good old-fashioned local news reporting.
We're not saying the Journal is a bad paper. In fact, that's definitely not the case. But like many big city papers -- which tend to get themselves spread too thin -- it suffers from a lack of hard-nosed local news and reporting. It has some great columnists, a good statewide news section and lots of fluffy info about Albuquerque. But if it publishes a half-dozen serious news stories in its front section that were written in and focused on Albuquerque in an average 300 page Sunday edition, that's a lot. Read it. You'll soon see exactly what we mean.
Still, the Journal is without question the biggest, best known and wealthiest paper in our state. Naturally, its extensive website reflects that. There's tons of good material there. Go check it out.
The Journal is New Mexico's largest daily newspaper. It's also our best known paper. It covers events throughout the state. However, because it tries to cover the whole state plus national and international news too, it's local news coverage suffers a bit. The Journal is not alone in this. For example, the Dallas paper (which locals jokingly call "The Dallas Morning Snooze") has had similar problems for years. In this writer's opinion, too much of the Journal's content comes from wire services or sister publications owned by the same mega-media-corp that ate the Journal for lunch. Far too little comes from good old-fashioned local news reporting.
We're not saying the Journal is a bad paper. In fact, that's definitely not the case. But like many big city papers -- which tend to get themselves spread too thin -- it suffers from a lack of hard-nosed local news and reporting. It has some great columnists, a good statewide news section and lots of fluffy info about Albuquerque. But if it publishes a half-dozen serious news stories in its front section that were written in and focused on Albuquerque in an average 300 page Sunday edition, that's a lot. Read it. You'll soon see exactly what we mean.
Still, the Journal is without question the biggest, best known and wealthiest paper in our state. Naturally, its extensive website reflects that. There's tons of good material there. Go check it out.
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