The news these days is so bad it could make you sick. Or so say researchers from Texas Tech University who studied what is being called “problematic news consumption.” “It has been […]
Dangerous words
Amateur experts
Update: This story was revised to include more information on lightning deaths. The New York Times, a journal pretty much out of its element anywhere west of the headwaters of the Ohio […]
Journalist who?
When a public official refuses to take a reporter’s questions, what is a journalist to do? Go to court to demand a judge order the official to do so? Well, that’s exactly […]
Real(ity) tales
If a reality TV star’s latest version of events is to be believed, the media tale of former President Barak Obama eating a bear-killed salmon while on his 2015 global-warming tour of […]
Who’s afraid?
The pandemic coronavirus now sweeping the country is revealing some interesting differences in how Americans young and old, rich and poor, liberal and conservative view the realities of life and death – […]
Tech threat grows
News analysis Nothing but bad news for Alaska commercial fisheries and one of Alaska’s historically largest employers is contained in a new report from Rabobank – the huge, Dutch financial company the […]
The failed ban
The coming year marks the 30th anniversary of the state of Alaska’s attempt to control world salmon markets by banning fish farming in the 49th state. It would seem an appropriate time […]
Global thermostat?
Fears of global warming have funded a huge volume of scientific investigation over the past decade, and the more that has been learned the more complicated has become the climate picture. The […]
NYT nyet
A New York Times reporting error reached all the way to Alaska last week where Israel Payton, a member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries, had to explain what wasn’t. The case […]
Danger city
As details emerge about a Wednesday grizzly bear attack that injured three people only about a dozen miles from downtown Anchorage, it is beginning to look like one of those chance meetings […]
