Local news in brief Aug. 1, 2009

Five days week the New Mexican is a pamphlet. Most articles are wire feeds with provocative headlines that belong on the editorial page. Very few local articles except those that favor some grand government spending (taxes) that take spending away from the merchants. The Richardson administration should have provided 8 years of investigative journalism.

You'd think with the self proclaimed smartest guy in the world on staff, Bill Waters, a simplistic snappy editorial could have willed this problem away. This is an enviormental damaging industiral enterprise run by hypocritical liberals.

Let's face it this "Paper of Record" has not been relevant a long time. It lacks any journalistic credibility. The internet allows me to not give this amoral intellectually corrupt enterprise a dime.

I look at it on-line, so I feel obligated to buy the hard copy. Still, I find myself more and more buying a copy of the Journal so I can read the local news.

...there it is! The re-worded Fierro article from the Journal buried in News in Brief. I'm sure it only took a brief time to re-type it. Thankfully we have the Journal to keep us informed and up to date.

Reality wrote:

I look at it on-line, so I feel obligated to buy the hard copy. Still, I find myself more and more buying a copy of the Journal so I can read the local news.

...You feel obligated to buy the paper because you look at it online? Huhh??

What wrote:

<quoted text>...You feel obligated to buy the paper because you look at it online? Huhh??

I'm sure the SFNM doesn't get any ad revenue from their online site. Or the journal for that matter, with their 'twice a week' infomercial access (that is easy to exploit, for unlimited free access, unless you're not savvy).

If only you could see my eyes rolling through the internet.

keep on trashing the downtown retailers and see what happens when they pull their advertising dollars from your paper. You should think about supporting the businesses who pay for you to be in business...

Cynic wrote:

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I'm sure the SFNM doesn't get any ad revenue from their online site. Or the journal for that matter, with their 'twice a week' infomercial access (that is easy to exploit, for unlimited free access, unless you're not savvy).
If only you could see my eyes rolling through the internet.

Should use the internet for more than porno, and wahtever....

that I have to read the Journal North to find out that Fierro's attorneys are throwing everything at the wall, hoping something will stick. While the past two days the Fierro story has been on the front page of the Journal North, there is one little blurb today in the New Mexican. I smell something fishy here...

I know I'm probably a loner here, but I think the abundance of advertising in this country is really overwhelming. I feel like I can't go anywhere in life or experience anything without someone trying to sell me something. Would anyone else be a paying subscriber of an ad-free paper? I would seriously pay $100 a month for this service. Well, if the paper wasn't a joke.

The Journal has always been a better paper. The SFNM should go back to six days a week or even five.

It's next to impossible to find local well written pieces. I get more from the first judicial court docket then I do the SFNM.