The New York Times, a journal pretty much out of its element anywhere west of the headwaters of the Ohio River, is now pitching advice on “how to survive a bear attack.” […]
Amateur experts
Getting it right
Nome Nugget reporter Julie Lerner deserves a journalism award for digging down into a sketchy claim of a bear attack on the Seward Peninsula earlier this month, but you can pretty […]
‘The unRevenant’ attack
Grizzly bears do not intentionally practice catch and release mauling, but don’t tell this to the New York Times. Once the pillar of U.S. journalism, the Times last week reported an unidentified […]
Protect yourself
If you are not by this time on a fitness kick, you’re being foolish. Why? One hyphenated word: COVID-19. Study after study after study is pointing to cardiometabolic fitness as your best, […]
Speed kills
With Alaska’s largest newspaper about to publish a scandalous story accusing 52-year-old Andy Teuber of sexual harassment at the start of March, the former president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium […]
Iditarod, take two
If Alaska’s largest newspaper is to be believed, you can now add the so-called “Last Great Race” to the filmed events of which you must ask “is it real or is it […]
Dangerous air
News analysis A year into the deadliest pandemic of the Digital Age, the U.S. government is finally being pressured to accept what has appeared obvious for a long time: SARS-CoV-2, the virus […]
The journo divide
Just when you think the American journalism trainwreck can’t get any messier, a New York Times writer breaks all the rules for newspaper departures and sets fire to every bridge behind her. […]
Where now?
News analysis Six months into the worst pandemic to sweep the globe since the Spanish Flu more than a century ago, it should now be clear to everyone that the SARS-CoV-2 virus […]
A natural disaster
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is far from over, but already it can claim its place as the worst national disaster to strike the U.S in the lifetimes of nearly everyone reading this. As […]
