Southwest Organizing Project employee Marjorie Childress used her PhD education and her paycheck from George Soros and the Ford Foundation to tell us “the government” denied Desert Rock Energy Company’s bid for a federal stimulus grant.

The Government.

Which government would that be, Marjoree? Oh, the one you read about in a real newspaper – the Farmington Times. Oh, I see. You read in the Farmington Times that it was “The Department of Energy.”

Oh, THAT government.

Let's see, all of your insider activist cronies know the DOE is a federal department and that New Mexico's cabinet level energy agency is named something else, right? So there's no need to include mention that it is the ***U.S.*** Dept. of Energy, right? And since it's federal stimulous money, we should assume it's the FEDERAL government mentioned in the source from which you stole this news content, right?

But wait. State, county, municipal and tribal GOVERNMENTS are all making decisions about administration of federal stimulous money. Yet you do readers the disservice of claiming that THE government is the FEDERAL government, so we have no need to engage state, county, municipal or tribal leaders in dialogue about administration of stimulous money.

How very New Mexico, how very local, and how very Independent. NOT!

You apparently either don't have sufficient training as a journalist or don't have an employer's expectation that requires you to figure out that when you report on government activities, you aren't just telling us about a particular event, but you are also EDUCATING the public about how various governments function by the simple use of language required to DESCRIBE governments.

But EDUCATING the public and DESCRIBING civic processes aren't part of the mission of advocates whose primary mission is to tell readers to which political faction they should listen for directives.

This isn't citizen journalism. This is ANTI-CITIZEN journalism.

Southwest Organizing Project employee Marjorie Childress used her PhD education and her paycheck from George Soros and the Ford Foundation to tell us “the government” denied Desert Rock Energy Company’s bid for a federal stimulus grant.

The Government.

Which government would that be, Marjoree? Oh, the one you read about in a real newspaper – the Farmington Times. Oh, I see. You read in the Farmington Times that it was “The Department of Energy.”

Oh, THAT government.

Let's see, all of your insider activist cronies know the DOE is a federal department and that New Mexico's cabinet level energy agency is named something else, right? So there's no need to include mention that it is the ***U.S.*** Dept. of Energy, right? And since it's federal stimulous money, we should assume it's the FEDERAL government mentioned in the source from which you stole this news content, right?

But wait. State, county, municipal and tribal GOVERNMENTS are all making decisions about administration of federal stimulous money. Yet you do readers the disservice of claiming that THE government is the FEDERAL government, so we have no need to engage state, county, municipal or tribal leaders in dialogue about administration of stimulous money.

How very New Mexico, how very local, and how very Independent. NOT!

You apparently either don't have sufficient training as a journalist or don't have an employer's expectation that requires you to figure out that when you report on government activities, you aren't just telling us about a particular event, but you are also EDUCATING the public about how various governments function by the simple use of language required to DESCRIBE governments.

But EDUCATING the public and DESCRIBING civic processes aren't part of the mission of advocates whose primary mission is to tell readers to which political faction they should listen for directives.

This isn't citizen journalism. This is ANTI-CITIZEN journalism.

Southwest Organizing Project employee Marjorie Childress used her PhD education and her paycheck from George Soros and the Ford Foundation to tell us “the government” denied Desert Rock Energy Company’s bid for a federal stimulus grant.

The Government. Which government would that be, Marjoree? Oh, the one you read about in a real newspaper – the Farmington Times. Oh, I see. You read in the Farmington Times that it was “The Department of Energy.” That government. Let's see, all of your insider activist cronies know the DOE is a federal department and that New Mexico's cabinet level energy agency is named something else, right? So there's no need to include mention that it is the U.S. Dept. of Energy, right? And since it's federal stimulous money, we should assume it's the FEDERAL government mentioned in the source from which you stole this news content, right?

But wait. State, county, municipal and tribal GOVERNMENTS are all making decisions about administration of federal stimulous money. Yet you do readers the disservice of claiming that THE government is the FEDERAL government, so we have no need to engage state, county, municipal or tribal leaders in dialogue about administration of stimulous money.

How very New Mexico, how very local, and how very Independent. NOT!

You apparently either don't have sufficient training as a journalist or don't have an employer's expectation that requires you to figure out that when you report on government activities, you aren't just telling us about a particular event, but you are also EDUCATING the public about how various governments function by the simple use of language required to DESCRIBE governments.

But EDUCATING the public and DESCRIBING civic processes aren't part of the mission of advocates whose primary mission is to tell readers to which political faction they should listen for directives.

This isn't citizen journalism. This is ANTI-CITIZEN journalism.