Wichita Falls Times Record News Local Reporting You Cannot Count On Every Day

Every morning I start the online part of my day checking various news sources, beginning with the local newspaper online, the Wichita Falls Times Record News.

Upon moving to Wichita Falls I soon subscribed to the Times News Record. I continued that subscription for several years, til it finally dawned on me that there is not much news, of the local sort, in this local newspaper. 

So, I cancelled my subscription.

I regularly get emails with discount offers trying to lure me back. Each morning, I still start with clicking on the Times News Record, but only because I can still click the weather tab without the click generating the "only available to subscribers" message.

And each morning when I click that link to get the weather report I see that which you see above, trying to get me to subscribe. What totally galls me is the part of the lure which claims, "Local reporting you can count on, every day."

Growing up in Washington, we always subscribed to the Skagit Valley Herald, the Burlington Journal and the Bellingham Herald. In college I subscribed to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, more commonly known as The P-I. Post college I continued subscribing to The P-I, til moving to Texas.

Til Wichita Falls I never lived in a domicile that did not get a daily newspaper delivery.

Upon moving to Texas, I soon found myself subscribing to a Texas newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

And this was the first time in my life I found myself reading what I came to consider to be a terrible newspaper. And then I moved to Wichita Falls to soon find myself subscribing to a newspaper even worse than the Star-Telegram.

The Wichita Falls Times Record News is part of something called "The USA TODAY Network."

Click on the Times News Record link and you'll get a good idea of what a bad newspaper this is.

When you click on today's issue, on the front page you see the following as today's major headlines, with the headlines being links to reports detailing this important 'news'...

Searchers find body of missing man in Lake Buffalo in Iowa Park.

Devean Isaac turns injury into academic victory

Interactive summer art exhibit and classes opening soon

WD-40 debuts limited-edition 'King of the Hill' can

Texas Republicans can't move past Paxton impeachment in Senate race

If you click today's NEWS tab you go to a "NEWS" page with headlines leading to more in-depth reporting of important local issues...

Photos show dancers of all ages at Square Dance Land in Wichita Falls

Texas Lottery results post: winning numbers for June 2, 2026

Wichita Falls councilors hear Eastside flood mitigation report

Texas Lottery results post: winning numbers for June 1, 2026

An audit revealed more than 700 failures in Wichita Falls siren system

Texas has never picked an unmarried senator. Both candidates are in 2026

Trump renews promise to campaign in Texas for Ken Paxton in interview

In Wichita Falls racing rubber ducks raise revenue for charities

The Frank & Joe's coffee house in the Hospital District will close

Republicans still lead Texas governor, attorney general races

Wichita Falls' Premier High School celebrates largest class ever

Wichita Falls City Council to mull police station plans, worker influx

MSU graduate turns grief into a tribute for her father

Texas commercial truckers testing only in English, per DPS rule change

Wichita Falls woman dies in Archer County crash

Searchers find body of missing man in Lake Buffalo in Iowa Park.

Devean Isaac turns injury into academic victory

Well, that should give just about anyone a good idea of why it was a good idea to cease subscribing to this sad excuse for a local newspaper...

Continuing Bad Beto Wichita Falls Times Record News Experience With NO KINGS Protest Info

This morning when I clicked on the link to the Wichita Falls Times Record News to do my regular morning click on the link to AccuWeather to see what Mother Nature has in store for me for the day, I also scanned through the news headlines.

I scanned through the news headlines because I wanted to see if this town's sad excuse for a newspaper had an article about yesterday's large turnout in Hamilton Park for the NO KINGS Protest.

Nope. Nary a word.

I cancelled my online subscription to this sad excuse for a newspaper months ago. At that point in time I took the comment opportunity to comment that among the many reasons I was cancelling, one of the primary reasons was that for months the list of Top Headlines one sees on the Times Record News home page is "Why did Beto O'Rourke speak in Wichita Falls?".

Back when my subscription was still active, enabling me to click on a headline link, doing so on the Why did Beto O'Rourke speak in Wichita Falls? link opened a page on which there was little information, including no answer to that extremely important question asking why Beto spoke in this town.

As you can see, via the screen cap of today's Times Record News, that vital Beto question is still being asked.

Particularly galling is that note, under the Top Headlines, inside a blue lined rectangle, saying, "We're always working to improve your experience. Let us know what you think."

I let them know what I thought about my experience months ago, but I am still waiting for my experience to be improved.

I never see the hard copy version of this town's sad excuse for a newspaper. Is it any better than the online version? Does the hard copy version repeat that Beto headline day after day after month after month, like the online version does?

I would hope not....

Times Record News Continues To Investigate Why Beto O'Rourke Spoke In Wichita Falls

That which you see here is a compilation of screen caps gleaned from the Wichita Falls Times Record News. That being the online version of an alleged newspaper print publication.

I cancelled my online subscription to this alleged newspaper a month or two ago. 

Why?

Well, in addition to it basically being a terrible newspaper, in the sense of covering local news, let alone other news, there was one article link which began to get on my nerves after half a year of seeing it.

I am talking about the last link in the screen cap.

"Why did Beto O'Rourke speak in Wichita Falls?"

If you click on the link there is no answer to the why did Beto speak question. Nor is there the indicated video. At least there was neither last time I was able to look, before cancelling my subscription.

And now today, when I clicked on the Times Record News link, so I could click on the AccuWeather link, which I can still click on, though no longer a subscriber, since AccuWeather is not a Times Record News publication, I saw that the why did Beto speak link has been added back to the Top Headlines list one sees on the Times Record News homepage. 

So, this link to a non-story, which has now been being featured for over half a year, is once more given more prominence.

When I cancelled my subscription, I was given the opportunity to explain why. And so I did, complaining both about the bad quality of their local news coverage and the embarrassing never ending link to the story about Beto speaking.

At some point in time during my years of being a subscriber to this newspaper I came to the conclusion that this newspaper did not employ an actual reporter. You know, a person who goes about town covering various issues.

Because of the Times Record News lack of actual reporting, we have seen no article explaining what became of the Circle Trail connection between Lucy Park and the section of the Circle Trail which trails through the Wichita Bluffs Nature Area.

We have seen no article about the creek drainage project one has witnessed being worked on for a couple years now, with no apparent end in sight.

We have seen no article about the current status of the WinCo project. The Times Record News did print the press release when WinCo let it be known it was coming to Wichita Falls, with the store opening in July. July has come and gone, with, like we already said, no article about the current status, and when WinCo will actually open.

How about an article explaining why that downtown semi-skyscraper, known as Big Blue, continues to be an eyesore in need of work?

Was there an article in the Times Record News about the mass execution of Sikes Lake geese? Or the current overly silted status of Sikes Lake, which looks to be, once again in dire need of dredging. The last time Sikes Lake was dredged the removed silt was transported to Lake Wichita Park where it was piled into the mound we refer to as Mount Wichita.

If I wanted to sit here and contemplate, I am sure I can come up with many other items which would seem to be local newsworthy, which you won't see any information about in this sad excuse for a local newspaper.

And, one day, we may finally learn why Beto O'Rourke spoke in Wichita Falls....

Wichita Falls Saturday Anti-Trump Rally With New Stoplight

This Monday morning's Wichita Falls Times Record News, that being this town's one and only local newspaper, of sorts, a newspaper which mainly focuses on local sports, crime and the weather, had an article, with photo documentation, of Saturday's downtown Wichita Falls anti-Trump protest.

This was not much of an article of the reporting variety, reporting what was said, in speeches, or any interviewing of attendees. 

In the photo I screen capped from the front page we see no umbrellas. Other photos showed most attendees under cover of umbrellas. I opted not to participate due to the cold temperature, strong wind, and off and on rain.

I suspect Saturday's will not be the last of anti-Trump rallies. I likely will get other opportunities to participate. 

And on another note, making note of an example of what is deemed newsworthy in the local Wichita Falls newspaper, on the front page there was headline link to another article, with the headline of that article being...

New stoplight installed in downtown Wichita Falls