Of red flags and straw men
Today’s Wheeling News-Register features our local congressman and the paper’s editor on gun control
Representative McKinley is doing the same thing on guns as he did on climate change
Earlier this year, I wrote an extended post on how our local representative, David McKinley, had apparently moved away from being a climate-change denier. I argued that McKinley had changed his position because, given the preponderant amount of . . .
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Bribing workers to attend Trump's PA Cracker Speech
A story you most likely won't see in Wheeling's "newspapers"
The previous post looked at our local Ogden newspapers' largely-positive coverage of President Trump's recent presidential policy speech political rally in Pennsylvania. But perhaps support for the speech was not all that it appeared to be. Some good work by Anya Litvak at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has documented the choices . . .
Posted in: trump presidency
Covering Trump’s PA Cracker Speech
The Wheeling Intelligencer reporter saw a different speech than the one that national news sources saw
This morning’s Wheeling Intelligencer coverage of yesterday’s Trump speech in Monaca (PA) was considerably different from that found in most national media. Rather than depending upon the Associated Press for coverage, our local paper used Rick Shrum, a reporter from another Ogden newspaper -- the Washington (PA) Observer-Reporter. The . . .
Don't expect to learn about the Green New Deal from local media
Here's a short new video from Vox that explains the proposal's basic ideas
The local media wasteland on information about the Green New Deal
My hunch is that a lot people who live in the Ohio Valley know very little about the Green New Deal. Especially if we depend upon local media, we are most-likely uninformed or ill-informed.
As for the local television stations' coverage: I cannot recall . . .
Wheeling "newspapers" have never criticized Trump's racism
On the other hand, they have never been shy about mocking those who do
From the editorial page of this afternoon's Wheeling News-Register:
Posted in: trump racismwheeling newspaper biases
Newly-orphaned baby in photo-op with president and First Lady (with update)
Smiling Trump gives thumbs-up
This is quickly making the rounds although I doubt that we will see it in the afternoon Wheeling News-Register:
This is how TPM described it:
In a jarring image tweeted from first lady Melania Trump’s account, she and President Donald Trump grin, the latter flashing a thumbs up, as they pose with a baby . . .
Posted in: trump presidencytrump racism
WVU news
football and coal mines, party-school rankings, salaries
An interesting coaching strategy
Yesterday, the WVU football team visited a coal mine:
Understanding Our State | An Educational Trip to Leer Mining Complex in Grafton, WV#HailWV pic.twitter.com/WWk5YbepxD
— West Virginia Football (@WVUfootball) August 7, 2019
Why a coal mine? I don't know. Perhaps . . .
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