Journalism as those over 30 have known it might not be dead yet, but it is on its death bed. Anyone who has any doubts needs to get out of his or […]
Good-bye love
Getting spun
Imagine reading this oped: “Alaska oil helps enrich Alaskans and power the world “In late March of this year, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources issued its forecast for 2019 statewide oil […]
Journalogrpahy? Stenoism?
Sometimes the state of journalism in this country today is enough to make someone who has spent a life in the business want to cry. Here is the Anchorage Daily News, the […]
Tech nearly kills
A New York man rescued after a week in the Alaska wilderness in 2016 is now blaming the whole affair on his sat phone and suing Globalstar, the company that runs the […]
The prize
Thirty years ago, the Anchorage Daily News won a Pulitzer Prize for chronicling the problems of rural Alaska in a series titled “People in Peril.” “Across the state, the Eskimos, […]
Comment now
The time has come to talk about online comments, or maybe the time is well past. What seems a long time ago in a world now all different, Debbie McKinney, a reporter […]
Propagandists
The Russians are not to blame for this country’s fake news problem. It’s the damn old folks. “On average, users over 65 shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news […]
Climate normal
Snow was falling heavily again in Alaska’s largest metro area on Monday to torment those who confuse weather and climate. Blame the local newspaper. There is a time-worn adage in journalism that […]
The long fall
Pity poor Alice Rogoff, the one-time owner of the Anchorage Daily News cum Alaska Dispatch News cum Anchorage Daily News all over again after she bankrupt her dream of being an Alaska-influencing […]
Fracturing media
The McClatchy Company – the California-based newspaper chain fondly remembered by some in Alaska as the owners of the Anchorage Daily News for 35 years before the Alice Rogoff-Alaska Dispatch News debacle […]
