The Calhoun Chronicle and The Grantsville News

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The Calhoun Chronicle and The Grantsville News
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)Calhoun County Publishing
PublisherHelen Morris
EditorNewton Nichols
Founded1883
Headquarters353 Main St, Grantsville, Calhoun County, WV 26147
Circulation 2,921(as of 2016) [1]
ISSN 1040-399X
OCLC number 12766699
Website calhounchronicle.com

The Calhoun Chronicle and The Grantsville News is a weekly newspaper serving the Grantsville, West Virginia community. [2] The older of its predecessors, the Calhoun Chronicle, was founded in 1883. [3] It merged with the Grantsville News (founded 1902) in 1984, continuing the original numbering of the Chronicle. [4]

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The newspaper's decision in 1990 to enforce its policy of refusing political advertising within a week of an election led to a 1991 West Virginia Supreme Court ruling in favor of the paper. The supreme court ruled that the government could not compel a private newspaper to print anything without violating constitutional freedom of the press protections. [5]

As of 2016, the newspaper is published each Thursday by Calhoun County Publishing Company and has circulation of 2,921. [1]

History

In the early 1880s Calhoun County was one of two counties in the state without a local paper. [6] The Chronicle filled that gap with a democratic weekly. By 1898 the Weekly Register counted it as one of the best papers to come to their office. [7]

In 1900, founder S. C. Barr announced that though the paper was Democratic, it would not be endorsing the Democratic nominee for U.S. president, William Jennings Bryan, citing the failure of the disasters Bryan had predicted in 1896 to appear:

"A rule of law is where a witness is impeached, or is overtaken In false statements; that his evidence Is not entitled to the same degree of credibility as it was before. If the statement of Mr. Bryan that the country was on the verge of ruin if we did not get 16 to 1 was untrue, might not his Imperialistic views also be far-fetched?" [8]

Bryan went on to lose the election, and the paper was sold to S. C. Barr to Sam P. Bell and Robert E. Hays shortly afterwards. [9]

Carl Morris, who won the supreme court case in 1991 guaranteeing private newspapers in West Virginia the autonomy to decide what it will not publish, owned the paper until his death in 2002 at age 83. [5] A similar issue arose in 1998, when Morris refused to run an ad for Clay County Democrat Clay Walker. Morris objected to the content of the ad, which was critical of Walker's opponent; he expressed willingness to publish an ad for the same candidate if it simply focused on his own family and background. [10]

As of 2016, the publisher was Helen Morris and the editor Newton Nichols. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  2. ↑ "Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
  3. ↑ "About The Calhoun chronicle". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Grantsville news. [volume]".
  5. 1 2 "Calhoun Chronicle owner Morris dies". The Charleston Gazette . Charleston, West Virginia. August 7, 2002. p. 3C – via The Associated Press.
  6. ↑ "State and nearby press". The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. 19 June 1883.
  7. ↑ "Items". The Weekly Register. 22 June 1898.
  8. ↑ "Barr's Dilemma". The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. 22 September 1900.
  9. ↑ "What is Thought of the New Editors". Calhoun Chronicle. 27 November 1900.
  10. ↑ SINGER, STEPHEN (April 25, 1998). "PRIMARY '98 - Paper won't print candidate's ad - Clay Democrat says local press is blocking his message". The Charleston Daily Mail. Charleston, West Virginia. p. 9A.
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