Has the Wheeling Intelligencer editorial page reached an all-time low?
Using old and no longer relevant editorials, the local paper reveals (once again) its disdain for its readership
Does the editor of the Intelligencer follow the news?
Today’s editorial is about WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito’s efforts to get action on the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program. This editorial was first published on May 9 -- probably in Ogden’s Martinsburg Journal. It begins:
U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore . . .
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That didn’t take long: its day 2 of the Trump Presidency and here is the Wheeling Intelligence jumping on board the Trump propaganda train
Today’s lead Wheeling Intelligencer editorial, "Trump Getting To Work for Us," begins:
A “golden age,” one in which the United States of America can aim even higher than the moon, was proclaimed Monday during President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration speech.
And while Elon Musk may have thrown his hands in the air . . .
Promising to generate “unique local content that you can’t find anywhere else,” Ogden Newspapers buys the Morgantown Dominion Post
Last week, from the Morgantown Dominion-Post:
BREAKING: Ogden Newspapers set to buy The Dominion Post
— The Dominion Post . . .
The Ogden Newspapers will purchase The Dominion Post from the Raese family of Morgantown and its West Virginia Newspaper Publishing Co., the two companies announced Wednesday.
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The issue is disclosure
Once again, Ogden Newspapers comes up short
Answer
At most newspapers, the biggest story would likely be either A, C, or D. But the Wheeling News-Register only sometimes functions as a newspaper; its Republican bias in news coverage and its failure to disclose its conflicts of interests leave it woefully short of what some readers might expect.
A look at . . .
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Looking for news in the weekend Wheeling News-Register
Some thought on Ogden’s downsizing
Back in May of 2020, the local Ogden newspapers joined what was already a growing trend among daily newspapers across America, the elimination of at least one day of publishing each week. In Wheeling, that meant that the Saturday edition of the Intelligencer and the Sunday edition of the News-Register would be replaced by the Sunday . . .
Good-bye, Dilbert
Has our local Ogden newspaper done the right thing, has it joined “cancel culture”, or is there another reason why the strip is not in this morning’s newspaper?
After reading about Scott Adams’ racist outburst this weekend, I looked for his comic strip, Dilbert, in the morning Wheeling Intelligencer. There was no Dilbert. The comic strip is no longer on the comic page of the Wheeling Intelligencer or any other Ogden newspapers. The chain, like hundreds of newspapers nationwide, no longer carries . . .
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Have I unknowingly slipped into some kind of alternative reality?
Earlier today, John McCabe, Editorial Director for Ogden Newspapers, criticized Fox News tweeting that the news channel was “garbage and an embarrassment to the industry”
I am still stunned. Here was McCabe’s tweet:
When in the world did this level of crap — “mannequin president” — become acceptable? Like @POTUS or not, think he’s doing the job or not, he’s still the president. @FoxNews is garbage and an embarrassment to the industry I give my life to each day. pic.twitter.com/pDDbr4qwPD
— John McCabe . . .
