A little chaos in the news The conservative news website Must Read Alaska – long a pain in the side of the mainstream media’s Anchorage Daily News (ADN) – unveiled a […]
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Covid silos
Will this science live on? Remember when we were all standing six feet apart in lines thinking that doing so was going to help protect us from Covid-19? Well, a team of […]
Agenda blinded
Why reporting is now so lame The truly sad thing about American journalism these days is the agenda-driven, narrow-mindedness that prevents reporters from seeing and reporting the complexities and the ironies of […]
What is ‘true’?
The horribly gray state of misinformation A Harvard University survey of 150 of the country’s top experts on “misinformation” provides a wonderful illustration of why American journalism should have avoided the quagmire […]
The disrupter
The staying power of Trump After some time spent in America’s flyover country, it is time to talk about Donald Trump, the former President now in trouble with the law in New […]
Talking safety
Anchorage’s phony new bike law On the day a well-meaning Anchorage Assembly approved a new bike ordinance claimed to make the state’s largest city safer for those who pedal, I was […]
Safe space
An economic opportunity for Alaska If Americans fearful of climate change are now truly fleeing the warm states for places like Duluth, Minn., as national and international media are reporting, Anchorage […]
The great hypocrisy
There is today one simple action journalists could pursue to improve their credibility, one very simple act. STOP TRYING TO SELL THE IDEA JOURNALISTS ARE SMARTER THAN ANYONE AND EVERYONE ELSE. Just […]
Be afraid
While you worry about global warming from the carbon dioxide build-up in the atmosphere above, vulcanologists are now warning that you should also be worrying about the heat that lurks below. They’ve […]
Not news
If you think you’re getting your news from the news in Alaska these days, think again. Most of what we call “news” now comes from government bureaucrats, and they seem increasingly […]
