A chicken? Really?

Published 8:00 pm Monday, October 22, 2018

What the editor or publisher of this paper deems as newsworthy amazes me. On Oct. 17, there was the annual “Community Leaders” tour. As the very short paragraph buried on page 3 of the Oct. 18 paper stated, the theme of this year’s tour was “Working Forests — More Than Just Trees” (“A walk through the trees,” The Daily Astorian).

The tour was attended by many of the candidates running for public office in the upcoming election, as well as some current officials and members of the local environmental community. I’m confident that at least some of these people would have comments, both negative and positive, regarding the tour and the current state of forest management. Forest management is an important issue to most Clatsop County residents.

Instead of being featured as an important subject, it was on page 3. Front page news was … a chicken (“This is Evelyn, Miss Fancy Feathers,” The Daily Astorian).

Bud Henderson

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