NEWPORT, Ore. – All across America these days, the day-to-day decay of the mainstream media is on display. The big problem is not the oft-cited bias, though there is plenty of that […]
Journo-icide
What you wish for
Conservative Alaskans seemingly gleeful about the demise of local news media perceived as leaning left appear dangerously unaware of the handout-driven landscape of journalism in these times. As reporting power across the […]
Shrinking news
UPDATE: This story has been updated to include the reported departure of high-profile KTVA commentator John Tracy. KTVA 11 news – “The Voice of Alaska” – is reportedly losing one of […]
Trust lost
Leave it to the venerable Associated Press to arrive late to one of the most disturbing trends of these times – the deconstruction and reshaping of the business of news – and […]
“I believe”
Once upon a time in America, the information business was more like science than religion. No matter whether writers were in public relations or journalism, accuracy was judged on evidence not mere […]
Gone ‘bou
More bad news for Alaskans invested in local food security. First it was weak sockeye salmon runs in the Copper and Kenai rivers making fish hard to find. Now its declining caribou […]
Hand-out news
The climbing season on North America’s tallest mountain is now well over, and if it feels like you missed it, well, there’s a reason. And that involves a story not about mountaineering, […]
Official news
A month to the day after 44-year-old Alaskan Michael Soltis was found to have been killed be a grizzly bear in a suburb just north of Alaska’s largest city, the Alaska […]
Historic firsts
This just in: Commercial salmon drift gillnetters will Thursday be allowed to fish in the Kenai River, an Alaska first. But wait, there’s more. It has just been discovered that the Nome […]
Fantasy news
A stray dog named Nanook is today the most famous animal in Alaska since Stubbs the cat, the alleged mayor of an Alaska town with no mayor. What a difference […]
