ADN Covers Palin on Beck Five Days After Progressive Alaska

Back on Thursday, Progressive Alaska announced, thanks to a tip from a reader named AKPetMom, that Sarah Palin is to be today's featured guest for FOX News TV's rollout of their brand new Glenn Beck show. The PA post featured brief editorial comments, and a video of Palin on an earlier appearance on Beck's CNN program.

Late this morning, almost five days later, the Anchorage Daily News posted a stenographic blurb about this show. The show starts in about five minutes. I'm not going to watch it. We don't get FOX.

(update - warned by an email - Don't try to go full-screen on the ADN FOX download of the Beck promo. It will crash your browser)

More and more, during 2009, we are going to witness progressive Alaska blogs like PA, the Mudflats, Alaska Real, the Immoral Minority, Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis, Just a Girl From Homer, What do I Know?, Kodiak Konfidential, the Alaska Dispatach, and others, cover stories the ADN misses. And other blogs too. Like Andrew Halcro's blog, especially.

As a case in point, this morning's ADN editorial about the "clean" coal plant in Healy, doesn't give out as much information, nor use its position for editorializing, to ask anywhere near as many questions as did Halcro in his posts on the issue last week.

This isn't just sad. It is lamentable.

More and more you will notice that we beat outlets like the ADN to stories by hours, if not days or - as in this case - almost a week.