media

No, you can’t believe ‘the science’
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 17, 2023
Copernicus surely had no idea when he got the Scientific Revolution underway in the 16th century that an unintended effect would be empowering agenda-...
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Level the field for local news
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jul 19, 2022
Fewer Americans read printed newspapers each year, but they still have an appetite for news. According to the News Media Alliance, paid newspaper circ...
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‘Free speech for me, but not for thee’
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 27, 2021
Long a stalwart defender of the First Amendment, the American media is now having second thoughts. For decades, it was a commonplace sentiment among j...
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Our View: Sustain local  journalism
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jul 31, 2020
It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has hit our state and our communities hard. As your local newspaper, we are working to provide coverage of t...
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Newspapers, long may they stand
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Oct 10, 2019
When I was in grade school my grandparents lived on Lakeview Terrace between Haskell and Wolf Run roads, but they spent their summers at The Camp in M...
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Eckstrom: A buzz over ‘fake news’?
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Jan 20, 2019
A report by online’s BuzzFeed News, alleging that prosecutors had detailed evidence that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress abo...
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Small-town papers ‘still kicking’
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Aug 01, 2018
It was the kind of news that sends a chill through the newspaper industry — yet also the kind of news that has become all too familiar. The New York D...
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From the Right: You won’t be speaking Russian anytime soon
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to The Olean TImes Herald 
Jul 23, 2018
The Democrats and the mainstream media have enjoyed spectacular success in convincing a large domestic and international audience that U.S. politics h...
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Letter: Trump has accomplished good things
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
May 29, 2018
While President Trump is still being attacked by liberals, the mainstream media and the Hollywood left, I really believe he could go down in history a...
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If I were to write letter to President Trump…
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to The Olean TImes Herald 
Apr 09, 2018
Dear Mr. President, Let me first congratulate you on a long list of achievements in your first 15 months in office. I will not be exaggerating when I ...
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How deep does social media rabbit hole go?
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Mar 23, 2018
I was pretty late to the Facebook scene. A couple years ago I broke down and set up my own page, mostly because I was getting drawn more and more into...
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The media ignores Trump’s victories
Commentary, Local Columnists
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to The Olean TImes Herald 
Mar 20, 2018
It's no secret that the mainstream media loathes President Trump. The coverage of the Trump administration has broken all records in terms of consiste...
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One man’s view of Atlantic 10’s all-conference
Basketball, College Sports, Columnists, ...
J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Oct 11, 2017
(Writer’s note: This is the first of a two-part series detailing my picks for the Atlantic 10 preseason all-conference teams and predicted order of fi...
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On trade, Trump is already winning
Commentary, Local Columnists
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to The Olean TImes Herald 
Jun 01, 2017
The media continues to fixate on President Donald Trump’s imaginary “ties with Russia” — strangely enough, the Clintons’ very real “ties with everywhe...
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