I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
A Nielsen study in December about how prepared the American public is for the digital television transition on Feb. 17th showed that Albuquerque was the least prepared of any media market in the country, with 13 percent of households not yet ready. This means their TVs are going to “go dark” on that date.
Another thing the Nielsen study showed was that Hispanic households are disproportionately unprepared, or in the words of Nielsen: “completely unready.”
In December 2008, 11.5 percent of Hispanic households were “completely unready,” compared to 6.2 percent of non-Hispanic households.
All joking aside about how the loss of television might actually be good for Americans who watch way too much of it, in reality the most impacted are those who don’t fork over a bundle every month to have a gazillion channels. These are lower-income people, or those who don’t watch television a lot but do find it necessary for certain things, like the news.
