Some 60 years ago, I sold newspapers on the streets of Anchorage and people of Anchorage relied heavily on the ADN and Times for information about our state and nation. Nobody called it a “Left or Right” or “Red or Blue” newspaper. It was just the “Newspaper” and now we have all these goofy labels that are supposedly identifying the news media to somehow influence our opinion about what were reading. We even have a President who brands the media as “fake news” and we’re supposed to be driven by these statements one way or the other. 

I was raised to have a mind of my own, to ask questions when needed. Have an opinion and use use what the good lord put between my shoulders, to think with, but not be branded by these labels. 

My first job was selling papers for a person I greatly respected, Bob Atwood at the Anchorage Times and never once did I hear him use these labels.

I for one greatly appreciate the ADN for hanging in with our community and providing the news and our news!