We have met the enemy; he is us Electric-powered cars and trucks are not the clean-world panacea many Americans thought they were, researchers for the National Bureau of Economic Research have […]
Post-truth journalism
Feelings, nothing but feelings… In commenting on the dying credibility of the American mainstream media last week, Matt Taibbi, a one-time reporter for a variety of left-leaning publications and an award-winning […]
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 […]
Just trust us
Faith in the American mainstream media has fallen to the lowest point in 20 years on the Edelman Trust Barometer tracking attitudes toward U.S. businesses and institutions, and it takes the Russians […]
Fish fight
The Senate Resource Committee spent hours Wednesday listening to Alaskans testify that a former member of the Board of Fisheries either brought a hint of fairness to an unfair government regulatory body […]
Journalism’s problem
Commentary Once the artists of their day painted on the walls of caves, and art was worth nothing. This is the problem journalism faces in the Age of the Internet. Most journalism […]
AK New-media’s new beat
The title card from the TV show Peyton Place While most Alaskans have had their attention focused on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the state’s Superbowl, the new-media of state […]
