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The Wood Word
The news site of Marywood University

The Wood Word
Alex Weidner

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor

Alex is a senior digital media major and broadcast journalism minor. Currently the Managing Editor at The Wood Word, he has been on staff since his freshman year. Alex enjoys uncovering government conspiracies to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

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President Trump speaks at a rally in Harrisburg, PA. April 29, 2018 Photo credit: Alex Weidner

OPINION: Donald Trump didn’t create Korean peace

Alex Weidner
May 10, 2018
Dave Coulier performs standup to a room of 200 Marywood students. Photo credit: Bethany Wade

‘Cut it out!’ No, we’re not kidding, Dave Coulier came to Marywood University

Alex Weidner
May 9, 2018
Kanye West performing at The Museum of Modern Art's annual Party, May 10, 2011 by Jason Persse. (CC BY-SA 2.0)

OPINION: ‘I miss the old Kanye’

John Ferraro and Alex Weidner
May 4, 2018
Techcrunch Disrupt SF 2013. Photo by Max Morse for Techrunch. Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

OPINION: Facebook (still) sucks

Alex Weidner
April 19, 2018
Screenshot of a video depicting multiple Sinclair-owned news stations, where reporters read the same script.

OPINION: We need to talk about Sinclair Broadcast Group

Alex Weidner
April 8, 2018
Scranton March for Our Lives demonstrator holds an anti-NRA sign. Photo credit: Alex Weidner

OPINION: The NRA is a foreign-funded propaganda machine

Alex Weidner
April 4, 2018
Scranton March for Our Lives participants display their signs.

[Photo] March for Our Lives Scranton rally draws a crowd

Alex Knittel, Alex Weidner
March 27, 2018
OPINION: What a Weird World! Supreme Leader Donald J. Trump

OPINION: What a Weird World! Supreme Leader Donald J. Trump

Alex Weidner
March 23, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo by Flickr user Silverisdead, CC BY 2.0

OPINION: Facebook’s grip on our lives is too strong

Alex Weidner
February 20, 2018
NEWS BRIEF: Undergraduate Core Curriculum Committee votes 'yes' on proposed changes

NEWS BRIEF: Undergraduate Core Curriculum Committee votes ‘yes’ on proposed changes

Alex Weidner
February 2, 2018
Sean Hannity speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. CC BY-SA 2.0

OPINION: Welcome to the grand delusion

Alex Weidner
January 30, 2018
What a Weird World! Photo credit: Carolyn Warcup

What A Weird World! TrumpWatch 2018

Alex Weidner
January 29, 2018
The towering evergreen remains lit through the holiday season in Marywood’s Rotunda.

From farm to Rotunda: Annual Christmas tree ceremony comes to light again

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
December 8, 2017
What A Weird World! Donald Trump end-of-the-year round-up

What A Weird World! Donald Trump end-of-the-year round-up

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
December 6, 2017
Protect Net Neutrality rally, San Francisco. Sept. 12, 2017. Credit Credo Action, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

OPINION: We seriously need to save net neutrality

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
November 26, 2017
What A Weird World! Mo’ Money, Moore Problems

What A Weird World! Mo’ Money, Moore Problems

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
November 21, 2017
OPINION: How do we deal with fallen icons?

OPINION: How do we deal with fallen icons?

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
November 16, 2017

[Video] Follow The Wood Word (on social media)

November 10, 2017
Scranton residents show their support for local candidates with yard signs.

OPINION: Get out there and vote

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
November 6, 2017
What A Weird World! Kid Rock’s incredibly short political campaign

What A Weird World! Kid Rock’s incredibly short political campaign

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
October 30, 2017

[Video] “On Screen” S. 3 Ep. 8: “Turn It Up to Eleven”

October 25, 2017
A slice of New York style pizza.

OPINION: Old Forge pizza is bad

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
October 25, 2017

[Video] “On Screen” Promo: A Little Stranger Than Usual

October 24, 2017
What a Weird World! Trump’s Towel Travesty

What a Weird World! Trump’s Towel Travesty

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
October 10, 2017
What A Weird World! The Dotard and The Rocket Man

What A Weird World! The Dotard and The Rocket Man

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
October 3, 2017
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Tom Petty live in Horsens, Denmark by Ирина Лепнёва.

Tom Petty, legendary musician, dead

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
October 3, 2017
OPINION: The iPhone X’s price tag is exactly what we should have expected

OPINION: The iPhone X’s price tag is exactly what we should have expected

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
September 25, 2017
Photo by Ted Eytan, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0. Charlottesville Candlelight Vigil at the White House, Washington, DC USA.

OPINION: Neo-Nazis are domestic terrorists and need to be treated as such

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
August 17, 2017
Travis Murray, a marketing major, stands in line to be hooded.

Graduation weekend begins with hooding and honors ceremony

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
May 20, 2017
Improv Beyond kept the audience's attention by asking for suggestions throughout the night. From left to right: Alex Eiden, Terry Thompson, Dan Huy, Daniel Smith, Sarah Wagner and Travis Murray.

Improv Beyond show doesn’t disappoint

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
May 3, 2017
President Trump waved to and greeted the crowd on his way to and from the podium.

[Photo] President Trump holds rally on 100th day of presidency

Rachel Looker, Editor-in-Chief
May 2, 2017

[Video] Congressman Cartwright discusses Trump’s policies, immigration reform at town hall

Rachel Looker, Editor-in-Chief
April 25, 2017

Media That Matters: Alex Weidner

Alex Weidner
March 22, 2017
Chance the Rapper performing on New Year's Eve 2015. Creative Commons

Shout out to Chance the Rapper

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
March 3, 2017
President Donald Trump being sworn in on January 20, 2017 at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Melania Trump wears a sky-blue cashmere Ralph Lauren ensemble. He holds his left hand on two versions of the Bible, one childhood Bible given to him by his mother, along with Abraham Lincoln’s Bible.

OPINION: Trump’s America, one month later

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
February 25, 2017
Photo by Sam Hughes, distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license via Wikimedia Commons

Actor John Hurt dies at age 77

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
January 29, 2017
Photo is in public domain. Publicity photo of Ted Knight, Cloris Leachman, Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In this episode, Phyllis talks Ted into running for local public office via Wikimedia Commons

Actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80

Alex Weidner, Managing Editor
January 26, 2017
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