How certitude is destroying media credibility After years of the mainstream media suggesting that the only Americans suspicious that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have come from a Chinese lab leak were […]
Know it alls
1,000 cuts
Media credibility in this country is at an all-time low not so much because of big media biases but because of the little errors that make it appear old media doesn’t […]
Burn, burn, burn
Fat-tired cyclists on the Iditarod Trail in what was once the Farewell Burn/Craig Medred photo The grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, “a brutal test of tenacity and stamina,” is off this […]
Agreeable news
Maybe part of what’s wrong with journalism today is not journalists, but readers. You don’t have to engage in many conversations about the news to find people whose main complaint is that […]
Devolution
Commentary On the day the Women’s March hit Alaska, a 49th-state journalist popped a photo of demonstrators up on Instagram with this description: “We hate Donald Trump up North too.” In the […]
The Trail Blazer
The time has come to give Alaskan Sarah Palin her due for putting the lie to an old adage often misattributed to Mark Twain, but once adhered to as if the country’s […]
