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  • Controlling the narrative

    Terry Weygandt|Updated Nov 22, 2016

    My niece, a Trump supporter, as is all my family in rural Ohio, saw an article I posted on Facebook titled "Why We Grieve Today," and as you might imagine we had a long, heated discussion and ended up not really agreeing on anything. How is it we see the world so differently when we come from the same background and have the same values? I concluded that we each get our information from sources that align with our viewpoints and rarely get information outside our media bubble. The difference, though, and the point of this... Full story

  • Rachel Marsden, please leave

    Terry Weygandt|Updated Dec 2, 2014

    I'm writing this letter to ask The Nugget Newspaper to consider not publishing op-ed pieces by Rachel Marsden. Google Rachel Marsden and you get titles such as: "Rachel Marsden: Least Intelligent Mainstream Warmonger Disinformation Hack of All Time?" or how about: "Rachel Marsden: Professional sadist, stalker, liar." This is a woman who calls water-boarding a learning experience: "I suppose that those who object to terror suspects getting water up the nose would say that, as a young competitive swimmer, I was also tortured.... Full story