Ode to Abbie Hoffman’s counter-culture best seller: “Steal This Book.”
Ethiconomics
We want fake news
Politifact and Facebook have now spent six weeks chasing the phantom of “fake news” and found the problem inherent in the human species. People, by and large, are prone to believe what […]
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 […]
Who to trust
Commentary Add “stealth editing” to the credibility problems facing journalism in these days of fake news, false news, slanted news, biased news and all the other variations on “news” that leave many […]
#Journalism’slastdays
Commentary “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo American journalism is dying, and it’s about time journalists own up to their part in this disaster. Time to peer in […]
The new news
A new entity has slipped into the interwebs to challenge Alaska’s established news media for the attention of your eyeballs. Alaska Banner.com is an attractive website with a masthead featuring the big […]
An AK media fable
This is a story about the death of a dog, a horrible tragedy for those who loved the dog dearly. But more than that, it is a story about the decay of […]
#Let’sfixjournalism
Commentary Journalism as the old generation of journalists knew it is dead, and it is time for the cash-strapped University of Alaska to take the lead on the new path forward. It […]
Totally flummoxed
News commentary Journalism has a lot in common with intelligence gathering. Journalists take bits and pieces of information of which they never have enough and try to construct from that a narrative […]
