News as propaganda kills trust Sometimes it is hard to tell whether scientists or journalists are most responsible for the pervasive global warming skepticism in the world’s largest and most powerful […]
The know-it-all problem
The great addiction
More than a century on from when Henry Ford changed America forever with the introduction of the Model T, the time has come to ask whether we still own motor vehicles […]
New, “new journalism”
How PR stole the show If a New Orleans law firm is to be believed, Alaska is the nation’s deadliest state for “freeway driving.” The 10-person firm of Scott Vicknair Law did […]
The disrupter
The staying power of Trump After some time spent in America’s flyover country, it is time to talk about Donald Trump, the former President now in trouble with the law in New […]
E-flailings
U.S health and transport problems are us Today in these unUnited States of America, nearly 2,000 people will die of heart disease and another 1,700 or so will die of cancer. And […]
O’Canada
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA – On the road south and east from the oil and gas boom cities of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, and Grande Prairie, Alberta, into […]
Words matter
Journalism’s role in distorting reality Sometimes it’s hard to avoid wondering if the politically tainted mainstream media in North America has finally abandoned the meanings of words as long defined by […]
Blinders on
The problem with agendas With Alaska reporting yet another season in which the harvest of salmon topped 200 million fish, the Associated Press has somehow concluded “climate change” is plaguing the state’s […]
Success?
Californians now fatter than Alaskans! Just over a third of Alaskans today qualify as obese, making residents of the 49th state a perfect match for the citizens of Georgia and Maryland, according […]
Demarketing
Canadians target sales of Alaska salmon Stealing a page from the playbook Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and some environmental groups used in an effort to kill net-pen salmon farming more than a […]
