Covering Trump’s PA Cracker Speech
The Wheeling Intelligencer reporter saw a different speech than the one that national news sources saw
This morning’s Wheeling Intelligencer coverage of yesterday’s Trump speech in Monaca (PA) was considerably different from that found in most national media. Rather than depending upon the Associated Press for coverage, our local paper used Rick Shrum, a reporter from another Ogden newspaper -- the Washington (PA) Observer-Reporter. The . . .
Newly-orphaned baby in photo-op with president and First Lady (with update)
Smiling Trump gives thumbs-up
This is quickly making the rounds although I doubt that we will see it in the afternoon Wheeling News-Register:
This is how TPM described it:
In a jarring image tweeted from first lady Melania Trump’s account, she and President Donald Trump grin, the latter flashing a thumbs up, as they pose with a baby . . .
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Editor Mike Myer in today’s Wheeling Intelligencer: Black lung “is making a comeback”
Sorry, it’s been back, and Myer’s column cannot hide the fact that the Trump Administration and Republican Party are the reason why the federal Black Lung Disability Trust Fund is $4 billion in debt
Early in today’s column about Trump’s comments about black lung, editor Myer tells us:
Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis, as the disease is known to medical professionals, is making a comeback.
No, it’s been back as a December 2017 Wheeling Intelligencer editorial told us almost 20 months ago:
In some . . .
The Wheeling Intelligencer gives us a “bottom line” look at what President Trump has done for us
And just like our president, the Wheeling Intelligencer has no problem lying to us
On coal
From this morning’s Wheeling Intelligencer editorial:
We know for a fact that he kept the promises he made to West Virginians. The “war on coal” prosecuted with such vigor by the previous administration was reexamined under Trump. Environmental Protection Agency initiatives launched solely to close coal mines . . .
“Our Army manned the air”
The AP coverage used by this morning’s Wheeling Intelligencer did not cover all of Trump’s speech
This morning's Wheeling Intelligencer used this Associated Press report which did not mention the airports. It could have used this AP report which included this paragraph:
He largely stuck to his script, avoiding diversions into his agenda or re-election campaign. The president's speech, however, contained . . .
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Whistling past the graveyard?
Some thoughts on Jeremiah Trump
A directive promoting “religious freedom”?
The day started innocently enough. I thought I might research how the Department of Health and Human Services’ new directive on “religious freedom” might impact health care in the United States. The news sources that covered the directive reported something similar to this from Mother Jones: . . .
Russians used coal as a wedge issue: A closer look at the Mueller report
Hey, but Senator Capito told us that “it’s time to move on”
As Grist reports:
About a third of Mueller’s long-awaited report, released on Thursday, has been redacted. But enough is left to determine that Russia tried to exploit America’s mixed feelings about coal in order to tip the election in Trump’s favor.
In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, a Saint . . .
