Have Ogden "newspapers" picked a favorite in WV's Republican senatorial primary?
What looks like a Jenkins' PR release is passed off as front page news
The front pages of both Wednesday Wheeling "newspapers" feature an article about West Virginia Representative and Republican senatorial candidate Evan Jenkins' efforts to pass anti-drug legislation. The morning headline states
Jenkins Pushes Anti-Drug Bills in House
The supportive article describes Jenkins' sponsored drug . . .
Not just the front page
This morning's Intelligencer edits and slants an AP sports story
According to the Associated Press:
David Freese thinks Pirates are not trying hard enough to win
That's the headline that most news sources placed atop the AP story about Pittsburgh Pirate third baseman David Freese. This morning's Wheeling Intelligencer headline isn't as specific:
Bucs' Freese Reports Unhappy
Those media . . .
Wheeling Intelligencer readers: you may think that you read an unbiased Associated Press assessment of Trump’s first year in office earlier today.
You didn’t. You read a highly-edited AP report that kept the positives while dropping most of the negatives.
Last night, the Associated Press assessed the Trump presidency on a wide range of topics as the president gets ready to deliver his first State of the Union address tonight. Unfortunately for local readers, the Intelligencer edited out much that was neutral or negative while keeping most of what was positive. (36% of the original article was . . .
The Trump administration had done next to nothing about the opioid epidemic
And our local “newspapers” have said nothing about it
Earlier today I googled “Trump response to the opioid epidemic” under “news.” (Go ahead and see what comes up.) At 5 PM a Vox article topped the list. The headline:
Trump’s pathetic response to the opioid epidemic
And the sub-headline:
The consensus from experts and advocates: “a lot of talk, little action.”
The article begins:
If you . . .
Not too hypocritical
Wheeling “newspapers” and our congressional representative on the CBO and the national debt
The local "newspapers"
Wikipedia describes the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as
a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides budget and economic information to Congress.
As it and other sources point out, it's nonpartisan as it reviews the possible impacts of major . . .
Propagandizing for the coal industry
A look at the Wheeling Intelligencer’s coverage and celebration of the Trump Administration’s override of the Clean Power Plan
National coverage --- editing an AP report
The front page headline of this morning's Wheeling Intelligencer reads:
Trump Administration To Get Rid of Obama's Clean Power Plan
and what follows is the first two-thirds of the AP story. Of course, what was dropped tells another story that local readers don't need to read:
Despite . . .
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Yet another Murray Energy press release posing as news (with evening update)
At the top of this morning's front page is the story:
Judge: EPA Must Identify Coal Job Losses
by energy propagandist and sometimes reporter, Casey Junkins. As he did two months ago, Junkins has rewritten a Murray Energy press release and local Ogden newspapers then call it news.
As with the November article, this one:
quotes the . . .