If you have any doubts that the pandemic is driving people nuts, take a look at the mess journalist Jeffrey Toobin has whipped up. Sorry, bad phrasing there. You really don’t want […]
Pandemic pitfalls
Journocide
Far too much time and energy is wasted in this country arguing about whether lefty-righty bias has driven the faith in traditional media to an all-time low. Yes, it would be nice […]
Getting played
New analysis The supposedly objective evidence an Anchorage Daily News-ProPublica story posits as proof that the late Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott traumatized the former director of law enforcement for the […]
True stories
Two years on from the story Alaska’s legacy media largely ignored, the state’s largest news organization is claiming it has the true story on what led to the downfall of Lt. Gov. […]
Old media twilight?
The fading significance of Alaska’s legacy media is broken down by the numbers in the September issue of the state Department of Labor’s Alaska Economic Trends, and the picture isn’t pretty. An […]
Real(ity) tales
If a reality TV star’s latest version of events is to be believed, the media tale of former President Barak Obama eating a bear-killed salmon while on his 2015 global-warming tour of […]
The journo divide
Just when you think the American journalism trainwreck can’t get any messier, a New York Times writer breaks all the rules for newspaper departures and sets fire to every bridge behind her. […]
Pay up
Two more former top editors of the Anchorage Daily News (ADN) are now in court battling to get their former bosses to pay them more than $1.7 million dollars they are owed. […]
Skepticism
The Seattle Times has caused something of a stir in the world of journalism with a report that Microsoft News is aiming to use computers operating on “artificial intelligence” to replace dozens […]
Banning books
When and how was it that American journalists became so contumelious toward the U.S. working class? On second thought, let me rephrase that to head off the comments from conservative critics of […]
