Now showing
Trip Jennings (2014-10-18)
About this film
This week's guest on "Report from Santa Fe" is veteran journalist Trip Jennings, executive director of the multimedia news outlet, New Mexico In Depth. Jennings discusses the election and the current campaign for governor of New Mexico. He deplores the lack of substance in the debates between the candidates and their total failure to discuss the real issues and crucial problems facing New Mexicans. Jennings is an award-winning veteran journalist who has worked at newspapers across the nation, including in California, Connecticut, and Georgia. Besides working at the Albuquerque Journal and Santa Fe New Mexican, Jennings was part of a team that started the New Mexico Independent, an influential online newspaper. Jennings discusses his “Open Letter to Governor Susana Martinez and Attorney General Gary King,” which opens with “I’ll be blunt: the 2014 campaign for governor feels like canned reality TV.” Jennings continues, “New Mexico needs a leader with a strong vision, an ability to communicate it in simple, inspiring terms that unifies, not divides, and the know-how to make it happen. All I see is politics as usual.” The veteran journalist continues, “If you ask me, however, New Mexi…
Directors & creators
KENW-TV, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Trip Jennings, Lorraine Mills, Susana Martinez, Gary King, Ronald Reagan, Walter Cronkite, New Mexico In Depth, National Education Association of New Mexico, Healey Foundation, Albuquerque Journal, Santa Fe New Mexican, New Mexico Independent, KUNM, Santa Fe Reporter, KNME, New Mexico gubernatorial election 2014, Reagan Revolution, civil rights movement, political journalism, New Mexico politics, campaign finance, public education, poverty in New Mexico, political discourse
More from this pool