Commentary Sometimes, if you have spent your life in journalism, it is hard to look at some of what passes for reportage these days without being forced to ponder whether a once-valued […]
Idiocracy
Penile art
If you’re reading this and you don’t know a woman who has been sexually harassed, you clearly do not know many women. And now, a one-time aide to the Alaska legislature who […]
Selling AK toys
Anchorage’s two biggest outdoor stores are now one, but what it means for the future is unclear. Bass Pro and Cabela’s on Monday announced they’d closed a $5 billion deal for […]
Going, going, going…
As the clock ticks toward a 9:30 a.m. bankruptcy hearing that could today decide the fate of Alaska’s largest news organization, confusion reigns. An Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) has asked federal Bankruptcy […]
Media faith fading
American journalism is a business in crisis. In Alaska, the state’s largest newspaper and by far largest news organization is teetering on the edge of financial disaster with losses reportedly running […]
Who to trust?
Trump and the media: The dishonest versus the untruthful and everything between
A death spiral
Commentary America, we have a problem. The moderator of the great public debate so vital to the functioning of a democracy has allowed itself to be compromised. Yes, we’re talking about […]
Small, small world
Fort Lauderdale shooting affects everyone
The media’s goat
Did you hear the one about how a “crowd hungry for photos” drove a poor mountain goat to its death in the sea offshore of Seward, Alaska?
It’s a fraud
The story now sweeping the country about a moose born in the parking lot of an Anchorage Lowe’s store is a fraud, according to an employee of the Lowe’s store, and a […]
