WV Republicans appoint Robin Capehart as counsel to the WV senate finance committee
Wheeling's ethics-challenged "newspapers" have no problem with an ethics-challenged Republican appointment
Today's Wheeling "newspapers" bring us the news that former West Liberty University president Robin Capehart has a new job as the lead counsel to the West Virginia Senate Committee on Finance. Capehart, who has been a long-time Ogden favorite (including a rare front page editorial supporting his West Liberty candidacy), held . . .
Republican Deathmatch 3
Don Blankenship makes it a threesome
WCHS-TV (Charleston-Huntington) is reporting that former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has entered West Virginia's 2018 senatorial race:
Eyewitness News has learned that former Massey Energy chief executive officer Don Blankenship plans to run for U.S. Senate.
Blankenship filed his federal election official papers . . .
Posted in: don blankenshipevan jenkinspatrick morrisey
God working in mysterious ways
Things I learned from the Internet today
- Vice News tells us what Chris Hamilton of the West Virginia Coal Association (and frequent Ogden op-ed contributor) had to say earlier today about the election of Donald Trump:
It wasn’t Russia that intervened in our election process; it was divine intervention. Thank the Lord he guided these people in this country, . . .
At it again: local front pages demonstrate how to slant the news in Trump’s favor
Misrepresenting the FBI hacking warning story
Both “newspapers” used the same Associated Press story about Russian hacking in the 2016 election on today's front pages. Here’s how the story begins:
The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail . . .
Posted in: wheeling newspaper biases
Old columns, plagiarism, and Astroturf from a Koch group
Reading the Sunday opinion section
You’re still reading outdated opinions
Last Sunday I wrote a post about how badly outdated the columns and opinion pieces were in that day’s Wheeling News-Register opinion section: a date check of when the columns first appeared revealed that half of the columns were at least a week old. Out of curiosity, I examined today’s . . .
Posted in: astroturfkochplagiarismrepublican tax reform
“We recognize a responsibility to provide leadership through editorials and commentary”
How about an editorial on Kathy Griffin?
The quotation in my headline is from a self-aggrandizing Wheeling Intelligencer editorial this past August. And for readers outside the Wheeling area, I’m not making this up -- one of the editorials in today’s Wheeling Intelligencer is about comedian Kathy Griffin. (I guess there was nothing new on any of the Clinton email/Benghazi/uranium . . .
News-Register editorial: critics of the Republican tax packages are “nitpicking”
The tax plans are “bait-and-switch” but our local papers will find ways to defend them
From this morning's Washington Post:
Congressional Republicans have implanted nearly 50 expiring provisions in their tax-cut bills that, if left unaddressed, would transform what Republicans promised would be middle-class tax relief into a law that raises taxes for tens of millions of Americans.
More than 80 percent of . . .
