The apocalypse is at the door of Alaska’s and America’s northernmost community. You can read about it on the internets. “A stroll along one of Barrow’s handful of roads shows just […]
Barrow under siege
The media’s goat
Did you hear the one about how a “crowd hungry for photos” drove a poor mountain goat to its death in the sea offshore of Seward, Alaska?
Halibut Cove crash photos
The Homer News, a feisty small-town newspaper in the Alaska community at the end of the Kenai Peninsula, has obtained moment-of-impact photos of the Fourth-of-July holiday airplane crash involving Alaska media-lebrity Alice […]
Reality news
Is it real, or is it “reality” news? You know, reality news as in “reality TV,” as in “it could be real, you know,” even if it probably isn’t. Can you say […]
New Age of Mythology
Commentary As an internet powered by what are supposedly legitimate news organizations populates itself with half-truths and whole lies, one cannot help but wonder if the U.S. is entering a New Age […]
Pogo had it right
“We have met the enemy, and he is us!” Pogo, the lead character in a long-gone newspaper comic strip, observed on Earth Day, 1971. He was commenting on the environmental state of […]
New ADN sues old ADN
Two years after buying the Anchorage Daily News for $34 million, Alice Rogoff — wife of financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein — is suing the California newspaper chain that made the sale […]
Second-rate journalism
These are embarrassing days to be an Alaska journalist. On Tuesday, the Washington Post matter of factly reported that “in mid-October police questioned (Johnny) Manziel after witnesses saw the (Cleveland Browns) quarterback […]
When AK bears attack
When a dog bites a man, as a Pulitzer Prize winner observed more than 100 years ago, it is not news. On average, almost 120,000 children between the ages of one and […]
Free snow for some
Somebody got snowed. That free and now famous Alaska Railroad snow shipped from Fairbanks to Anchorage for the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race only to go unused? There’s a […]
