Commentary Enough with all this fretting about “fake news.” Let’s talk about what’s really irritating as a news consumer: Click baiting. It’s everywhere, and it’s almost enough make you stop reading news […]
Just fake enough
The truth police
Commentary The new truthers have latched onto “fake news,” and the need to clean up the internet. It is a good and holy cause, but the people invested in this idea are […]
Russia at it again?
Commentary Is it possible Russia is trying to co-opt Americans with fake news once again as the Washington Post charged shortly after president-elect Republican Donald Trump upset Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton in […]
Time to stand up
Commentary If journalists are truly concerned about “fake news” or “false news,” there is a simple solution. Call out the people doing shoddy journalism and explain why readers should be concerned as […]
#Journalism’slastdays
Commentary “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo American journalism is dying, and it’s about time journalists own up to their part in this disaster. Time to peer in […]
Enough Trump-anioa
Commentary Calm the hell down my good liberal friends. America is not overnight going to be transformed into “The Apprentice,” let alone Nazi Germany. No matter how much President-elect Donald Trump […]
Putin’s head
Sarah Palin to Russia with love, President Trump Commentary Enough with this silliness about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin taking over the Department of the Interior. That job demands […]
Winning the peace
Commentary Someone will today win the war to be President of the United States. Some friends and acquaintances say that if the winner is Democrat Hilary Clinton, it will be a disaster […]
Why, why, why?
Commentary Alaska Senate candidate Joe Millers’s “brown-shirted security detail (that) put a Jewish reporter in handcuffs at (a) public event” is gone now, but for a time last week it lived in […]
The broken marriage
Commentary At some point someone has to ask what went wrong with what was once a symbiotic relationship between Alaska and Big Oil. Was it the creation of the oil-fueled Permanent Fund […]
