The Mountain Eagle is a local weekly newspaper published in Whitesburg, Kentucky. It is the main newspaper of Letcher County, Kentucky and one of the primary newspapers of Eastern Kentucky. It was published by Thomas E. Gish until his death in November 2008 and edited by his son, Benjamin T. Gish. Founded by Nehemiah Webb in 1907, The Mountain Eagle The Mountain Eagle was purchased by Tom and Pat Gish in 1956 and has been owned by the Gish family of Letcher County ever since. It has won numerous awards for its coverage of strip mining and its environmental effects, education, and political corruption. After the newspapers office was set on fire by an arsonist in 1974, Tom and Pat Gish produced a new print the next morning in which they had changed the newspaper's motto from "It Screams" to "It STILL Screams." More information...
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