The Wheeling Alternative

Covering/not covering Mylan's EpiPen controversy

Intelligencer uses AG office's press release as news

On page 7 of this morning's Intelligencer, the reader can find the following story (no link found) about our attorney general and his investigation into the cost of Mylan's EpiPen:

W.Va. Attorney General Seeks Enforcement of Subpoena

Other . . .

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September 21, 2016

Explaining the Republican attacks on Hillary

Newsweek examines the Right's strategy in attacking Clinton's "deplorables" and "putting coal miners out of work" speeches

Neil Buchanan writing in Newsweek on Saturday:

Trump and his people are now rolling out the oldest of Republican campaign themes: Find a statement by a Democrat that can be taken out of context, repeat it endlessly and claim to be horrified that Democrats could be so unfeeling, callous, or unpatriotic. Trump is, finally, a true . . .

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September 19, 2016

Documenting the locals' anti-Clinton agenda 12 (with 9/19 update)

Ignoring another Trump 2nd Amendment solution for Hillary Clinton

On Friday Donald Trump suggested another 2nd Amendment solution for Hillary Clinton. Here is how the New York Times described it that night:

MIAMI — Donald J. Trump once again raised the specter of violence against Hillary Clinton, suggesting Friday that the Secret Service agents who guard her voluntarily disarm to “see what . . .

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September 18, 2016

Myer lectures us on the Constitution

Yes, this material will be on the next test

Most of today's Mike Myer column, "Celebrate, Defend Constitution," is a Myer civics lesson on the Constitution which he calls "a virtual blueprint for our government." Along the way he knocks liberals (it's required in all Myer columns) for suggesting that the document needs to adapt to a changing world. No, as a . . .

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September 17, 2016

Documenting the locals' anti-Clinton agenda 11

"Fair and balanced" coverage of the health issue

Here are six paragraphs from today's balanced AP story on the candidates' health: the first two paragraphs summarize their health, the next two describe Trump's "swipe" at Clinton for her brief absence, and the last two feature Clinton's . . .

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September 16, 2016

Finding "deplorable" columnists to support Wednesday's editorial

Yesterday, I commented on the Intelligencer editorial that attacked Hillary Clinton's for her assertion that half of Donald Trump's followers were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic ("deplorables"). The paper's defense was that she was attacking them because they disagreed with her; Trump's own . . .

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September 15, 2016

Morrisey watch 19

Old whatever (it wasn't news back in August) gets recycled for another front-page story

Today's front-page of the Wheeling Intelligencer has what is most-likely an old Morrisey PR release posing as an actual news story. The article by Joselyn King features Attorney General Morrisey (with a picture) and has this headline:

Doctors Endorse Morrisey's Opiod Plan

Here's the lede:

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September 15, 2016

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