There is today one simple action journalists could pursue to improve their credibility, one very simple act. STOP TRYING TO SELL THE IDEA JOURNALISTS ARE SMARTER THAN ANYONE AND EVERYONE ELSE. Just […]
The great hypocrisy
1,000 cuts
Media credibility in this country is at an all-time low not so much because of big media biases but because of the little errors that make it appear old media doesn’t […]
The truth benders
So finally it is clear, thanks to the exhaustive reporting of Jeff Gerth and the willingness of Columbia Journalism Review to ignore the peer pressure of the rest of the mainstream […]
Not so wild
BOISE, ID – The menu at the Anthony’s Restaurant here promised fresh, “Wild Alaska King Salmon.” I thought about it and passed. There is no food in the restaurant business […]
Hallucinogens reborn
Hallucinogenic drugs – once the target of a large and well-organized disinformation campaign started by the government and supported by the country’s mainstream media – are continuing to make a comeback as […]
Human road kill
A team of British psychologists appears to have identified why it has become so unsafe to be on or near a modern roadway unless encased in a cage of steel and coined […]
World wanderers
Long before Europeans began the invasion of North America with the 10th-century arrival of the Vikings in what is now Canada, it appears Alaska Natives had begun invading Asia. This new and […]
Spinning the news
Gas stoves are heating up in the news, and Boston Globe reporter Travis Andersen is bragging about it like a teenage boy: “Happy new year, Into the Red readers, “I can’t believe […]
Livin’ the life
In Alaska, 30-year-old Taryn Williams is making what she estimates to be $10,000 to $15,000 per year more than she could in the Lower 48, on track to invest $25,000 per […]
A brief reprieve
The world’s salmon farmers appear to have had their first off-year since 2016, according to the latest report from Rabobank, the Netherlands-based banking and financial services company that carefully tracks aquaculture. When […]
