Leave it to a journalist funded by a “nonprofit investigative-news organization” based in Los Angeles to somehow either miss or overlook the fact Alaska is awash in salmon. The harvest this year […]
Unvestigative journalism
Limits of science
The nature of human kind is that the more we learn the less we know. Once we knew the earth was flat, and we were wrong. Once we knew the universe […]
Self immolation
Let’s imagine for a moment that, as some have suggested, the Russians could be behind @2020fight – the Twitter site that helped drive the false narrative of a story about American Native […]
Goodbye news
The laws of nature increasingly point to the conclusion that journalism as most in this country have known it for decades is doomed. Anyone who stands back and looks at the environment […]
Caribou-boo
Why is it that reporters with a good story to tell sometimes can’t seem to avoid the pit of embellishment that makes journalism look so bad? Here’s Hillary Rosner writing in The […]
Palin’s war
Newscaster Katie Couric, who inadvertently made Sarah Palin famous, is finally giving Alaska’s former, half-term governor her due for turning American politics into the shitstorm it is today.
Doomsday warming?
On the day the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations publicly revealed its special report warning of an impending global-warming catastrophe, the daily temperature in Alaska’s largest city […]
Personal truths
In this the age of personal-truth, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has become the perfect focal point for America’s divisive partisanship. What better to argue over than something about which no one […]
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 […]
AK’s (un) Affordable Care Act
The sometimes not-so Affordable Care Act is focusing national attention on Alaska, the once oil-rich state facing no end of problems due to the global slump in oil prices. Writing in “The […]
