BP Whistleblower Speaks Out on Falsified Safety Tests
Mike Mason is a 27 year oil-industry veteran who worked on oil rigs at BP facilities on the North Slope of Alaska. On January 21, 2005, Corporate Crime Reporter ran an article detailing Mason’s allegations of BP falsifying the results of blowout preventer tests. At the time, Mason was working for Nabors Alaska Drilling Inc. [...]
For Exxon’s a Jolly Good Felll-llow… Which Nobody Can Deny!
Do any of you guys have one of those giant Costco three-packs of mouthwash? Because someone needs to send it to Paul Jenkins, stat. He needs it bad after a dozen paragraphs of tongue kissing Exxon. It was kind of icky to watch, really. But it was such a spectacle I couldn’t look away. Here’s [...]
Oyster Round Up!
Thick and fast they came at last, and more and more and more! Mile High Club Gone Wrong A pair of young lovers were apparently too intent on matters at hand and not paying attention, resulting in tragedy. Two eagles were found head down, wings and talons up, sticking out of a hard packed snow [...]
Ethics Complaints and the Power of Precognition
The Daily News in an op-ed piece yesterday said something interesting. Alaska citizens have a right to file ethics complaints against their elected representatives. State law guarantees it. But when Alaskans use the ethics law to score political points, they abuse that right — and may put it at risk. Score political points? Abuse their [...]
The Fine Art of Navel Gazing. A Blogger Blogs About Journalists Reporting on Other Journalists Who Write About Bloggers Reported on by Other Journalists Who Refer to Bloggers.
Now you’re going to have to follow this carefully. So shake out your arms, rub your palms together briskly, and focus carefully. OK… The Anchorage Daily Newsreader has linked to the Alaska Dispatch, which has written a news article based on an anonymous blog comment in response to an article in the Anchorage Press about [...]
I’m Not Going to Be a Journalist, and You Can’t Make Me. (Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That)
As we in Alaska watch the sad shrinking of the Anchorage Daily News, we wonder with more than a little trepedation what will happen to print journalism as we all settle into the digital age. I was talking to a friend recently about the fact that the ADN will be drastically cut back, and what [...]
Eureka! ADN Gets the Gold Nugget! Legislators Get…a Spine?
Today I bestow the some day coveted Mudflats Gold Nugget Award to none other than the Anchorage Daily News. They have, in the past, been the recipient of its sister award, The Moose Nugget, but let’s not ruin the mood. Today, they did good. In a well-worded, concise summary of the current synopsis of the Troopergate [...]
