Today’s Wheeling News-Register: little news, some filler, mostly ads and another questions-with-no-answers Myer column
Perhaps it is time for our local paper to follow Ogden’s Parkersburg paper and get rid of the published Sunday edition?
Only five stories in the entire “news” section
The front page had four of them. Colin McGuire, a reporter from another Ogden paper in Frederick (MD), compiled a report from a couple of Ogden reporters on how residents were adapting to stay-at-home orders. The article contains little, if any, insight; I do not understand why this was . . .
The “war on coal” is over
Today, May 7, 2020, the Wheeling News-Register published a pro-alternative energy editorial
I think this is significant.
The “war” was never really a real war as much as a rallying cry for the coal industry and its supporters. Today, Ogden Newspaper’s Wheeling News-Register, long a mainstay in the industry’s propaganda battle, signaled that it was over with its editorial “Area Can Benefit From Solar Energy.”
It . . .
“Mourning/Morning in America”
The Lincoln Project rifts on a classic Reagan ad from 1984
The Lincoln Project was formed earlier this year by a group of Republicans unhappy with the Trump presidency. Their purpose, according to their website:
The Lincoln Project is holding accountable those who would violate their oaths to the Constitution and would put others before Americans.
To that end, they have . . .
Posted in: 2020 presidential electiontrump presidency
Ogden and the continuing decline of newspapers
Last week, S&P Global Market Intelligence documented how the coronavirus was hurting newspapers regardless of size or the community it served:
Over the past two weeks, dozens of local publications across the country have furloughed or laid off reporters, reduced the frequency of their publishing or dropped their print . . .
Posted in: coronavirusogden newspapers
So much for curiosity and research
Our local editor looks at national park closings
Today’s Mike Myer column is similar to his April column on the closings precipitated by the spread of the coronavirus: (1) it attempts to make the case for keeping things (in this case, the national parks) open, and (2) it does so by pure assertion.
Early in the column, Myer tells us:
Many national parks shut down . . .
Posted in: coronavirusmike myer
How to lie with statistics
Trump/McKinley Paycheck Protection Program edition
On Tuesday, our local congressman, David McKinley, retweeted the following from the GOP and the White House:
The #PaycheckProtectionProgram is helping small businesses across the country, especially the smallest and hardest hit.
In fact, 1 million out of the first 1.6 million #PPPLoans went to businesses with 10 employees or less. . . .
Today, the Wheeling Intelligencer finally ended its series on the thoughts of West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee
Exaggerations and highlights from four days and 2300 words
My understanding is that most universities have had to finish this semester online. While that task would present some difficulties, I searched and could not any other university leader who compared their planning to the 1944 D-Day operation or similar undertaking. (Even at universities that serve more students!)
Some . . .
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