Scientists Fredrik Jutfelt and Josefin Sundin, discovered the hard way the power of the false narrative. False narratives once established have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own. […]
False narratives
Hatchery plan stalls
A Homer, Alaska area salmon hatchery caught operating without a federal Clean Water Act permit won’t be moving its operations to Kachemak Bay anytime soon. The private, non-profit Cook Inlet Aquaculture […]
Strange things done
What a week in Alaska journalism. Just when you think the weirdness has gone beyond weird, things get weirder. If only Robert Service, the bard of the north, were still alive to […]
Official serial killer
Eight months after linking five Anchorage shootings to a single handgun, Anchorage Police have finally confirmed there was a serial killer on the prowl in Alaska’s largest city last summer. The […]
Crowd-sourced news
Anyone can be a reporter, and it was only a matter of time before news organizations recognized the same and tapped the reporting power of the masses. At the forefront now is […]
The NIMBY state
Before scientists in Alaska ever got a chance to study what might have been the strangest of all hydroelectric projects – one that could benefit salmon – it died in the […]
Best of cooling
The winter of 2016-17 will be remembered as the year the Alaska warming trend took a pause before delivering one of those best-of-the-north springs. It was the year Mother Nature cooked […]
News versus story
A news analysis In one compound sentence the Associated Press on Saturday summarized so much of what is wrong with journalism today. Here is what the AP reported: “Alaskans often take great […]
Something’s wrong here
Commentary Journalism today faces a nearly universal and very simple business problem that almost no one in the business talks about: quality control. To be perfectly honest, too, the problem often […]
The dog death news
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is long over and already near forgotten, and “Sled Dogs,” the controversial movie critical of the commercial use of sled dogs for racing and tours, has […]
