journal editorial ignores the journalist's code of ethics

journal editorial quoted in significant part

Would-be school reformers shouldn't give up because the Senate Education Committee has tabled bills that would let Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez appoint three of the local school board's seven members.

It will take lots of education to succeed.

The six senators who voted to (table the bill) are from outside the Duke City and perhaps haven't had the same exposure to problems in APS.

...accountability isn't sufficiently addressed when only 6 percent of the voters bother to cast ballots in APS elections.

This dynamic makes elections easily influenced by small interest groups, and significant systemic change next to impossible.

(Senator) Boitano says "the feedback I'm getting is there needs to be change, and we all know change doesn't come from within."

from editorial we can infer;

• school reform rests on a mayoral take over of public schools.
• the bill failed to pass only because senators are "uneducated" about the issues.
• the only people who voted against it did so because they are from not from albuquerque and don't know any better.
• voter participation will never be significantly larger than a 6 percent turnout.
• and, at least one senator will stand on the record avering that aps leadership can not and will not reform itself.

there is a code of ethics for journalists. the code, like most codes that set higher standards of conduct, is unenforceable.

newspaper wo(men) are expected to tell the truth. editorial opinion does not give license to tell half truths.

in large part, the argument for a mayoral takeover is based on the need to compensate for voter disinterest.

the half truth (and whole lie) about voter turnout is the the journal is responsible for the low turnout.

had the journal, or any media outlet, investigated and reported on even one substantive aps leadership issue; the turnout would have been higher. if they had given the board elections one hundredth of the coverage they have given bill richardson for free, the turnout would have been in record numbers.

but they didn't, it wasn't, and the journal needs to own their responsibility for the low voter turnout. instead, they are now are covertly using the results that they created, to pursue a political agenda that they obviously support.

apparently they have not found that
a lack of integrity and credibility hurts their bottom line.