Craig Medred – A home for readers and thinkers
1 day ago · Craig Medred is an independent Alaska journalist with over 35 years of professional experience as a reporter, writer & staff editor. This is his news site.
News – Craig Medred
Jan 12, 2025 · Posts about News written by craigmedred. Industrial-scale, ocean farming all good – state officials Only weeks after a Seattle biologist warned Canadians that salmon numbers in the North Pacific Ocean have reached the point where ocean-farmed fish threaten […]
craigmedred – Craig Medred
Jan 12, 2025 · craigmedred. craigmedred.news is committed to Alaska-related news, commentary and entertainment. it is dedicated to the idea that if everyone is thinking alike, someone is not thinking. you can contact the editor directly at [email protected].
What next – Craig Medred
Nov 26, 2024 · Already facing a tide of outmigration, Alaska today finds its largest city pegged among the top five of the "30 Worst Places to Live in the United States.'' So much for the old idea of selling Anchorage as a comfortable, civilized, climate-change refuge on the edge of a vast wilderness ripe for recreational exploration. And…
Commentary - Craig Medred
Dec 27, 2024 · Posts about Commentary written by craigmedred. Industrial-scale, ocean farming all good – state officials Only weeks after a Seattle biologist warned Canadians that salmon numbers in the North Pacific Ocean have reached the point where ocean-farmed fish threaten […]
Near death – Craig Medred
Jan 28, 2024 · The disappearance of reporting What many Americans think is wrong with America's legacy media today isn't the biggest thing wrong with America's legacy media today. Yes, obvious bias in news coverage - whether left or right - is irritating. It forces readers into extra efforts to try to sort out the facts and discern what…
The ‘accident’ - Craig Medred
Apr 19, 2024 · A death quickly dismissed Forty-eight-year-old Matt Glover from North Pole, Alaska, was, according to his many Fairbanks-area friends, among the safest and most responsible cyclists in the 49th state. A wildland firefighter by training, he moved north from California in 1999. Riding his various bikes at the time kept him in shape for the…
Alaska idyll – Craig Medred
Apr 4, 2024 · Alaska's white pavements PLACER RIVER - The snowpack in this glacier-headed drainage 50 miles southeast of Alaska's largest city was still at least four feet thick on Wednesday and with the early morning temperatures in the 20s, a fat-tired bike could be ridden almost anywhere across the white pavements. Global warming might be transforming the…
What is ‘true’? – Craig Medred
Nov 12, 2024 · The horribly gray state of misinformation. A Harvard University survey of 150 of the country’s top experts on “misinformation” provides a wonderful illustration of why American journalism should have avoided the quagmire of “fact-checking,” should get out of that mudhole now and should stay out of it. Nothing has done more to damage mainstream media credibility in this century than ...
The know-it-all problem – Craig Medred
Nov 26, 2023 · News as propaganda kills trust Sometimes it is hard to tell whether scientists or journalists are most responsible for the pervasive global warming skepticism in the world's largest and most powerful democracy. A Pew Research survey in October found only about a third of U.S. citizens greatly concerned about the future climate, and after…
- Some results have been removed