Many of us on the right like to claim that the Old Media is just an arm of the Democrat Party. Of course some of that on our part is bombast, but incidents such as the following tend to make conservative’s complaints seem more like right-on-target truth than over-the-top complaining.

On February 23, ABC TV Channel 7, WTRF News (Wheeling, West Virginia/ Steubenville, Ohio), posted on its website what was originally credited as a story “written by” reporter Bob Westfall. Unfortunately, though, this posting was nothing but a word-for-word re-posting of Democrat Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown’s latest press release. There was little to no difference between Brown’s press release and the “story” as posted on the ABC 7 news site.

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Newspapers have been recycling press releases for eons, of course, although rarely did they publish them under the byline of a staff reporter.  This story was up for most of the day, but was taken down in the early evening of February 23.  One can only assume that WTRF got a bit embarrassed at its shilling for a Democrat Senator.

Here is a screen shot of the Google search page that showed WTRF’s original posting: (more…)