Commentary You may not trust the media – this or any other – and you shouldn’t. Journalism is not an exact science. Journalism is a regularly error-filled compilation of some of the […]
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Phantom cougar
A mountain lion is on the loose in Alaska’s largest city. Or so says the internet. The media involved is social, but it’s still called “media.”
Bears, bears, bears
The bears have invaded Seward, AK. One got shot in the foot. And now there is a bit of social media debate underway. The good news is that Seward Police Chief Tom […]
Home safe
Sometimes it is good to find a story with a happy ending. This is one such story. More than two weeks after disappearing into the urban jungle of Alaska’s largest city, […]
Journalism in decay
The race to the bottom appears to be over. CareerCast.com, a website that ranks jobs in the U.S., now puts journalism at the bottom of the list of worst jobs […]
Cue the debate
Alaska Sen. Cathy Giessel, a conservatively fiscal Anchorage Republican, has introduced legislation to up the fee on ice-gripping, motor-vehicle tire studs from $5 to $75 in the 49th state, thus fueling the […]
Gender wars
Alaska Business Monthly editor Susan Harrington thought the edge had gone off the country’s gender war until the magazine ran a cover with a man mimicking the iconic Rosie the Riveter poster […]
Salmon dipnet hurrah!
MOUTH OF THE KENAI RIVER – After a 36-hour respite from commercial fishing offshore in Cook Inlet, the sockeye salmon flowed steadily along the beaches here on Wednesday. The fishing was not […]
