Criticism
In 1997, the weekly Anchorage Press newspaper ran a controversial article that alleged the Daily News' quality and newsroom morale had declined substantially since the McClatchy buyout and the Daily News' subsequent victory in its newspaper war with the Anchorage Times, which went out of business in 1992. The Press article's title, "Paper in Peril," was a parody of the name of the Daily News' 1989 Pulitzer-winning series. While the Press' extensive interviews (mostly of unnamed sources) pointed out genuine problems and turmoil in the Daily News' newsroom, many believed the article unfairly maligned McClatchy in general and Daily News Editor in Chief Kent Pollock in particular. Others believed the article unintentionally reflected at least as poorly on the rank-and-file reporters and editors as it did on management.
Attorney and former state legislator Fritz Pettyjohn, who spent much of the 1990s hosting the afternoon drive time talk show on radio station KENI, repeatedly referred to the paper as the "Anchorage Daily Knowles," primarily due to their mostly unwavering support for former mayor and governor Tony Knowles.
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