A recent issue of HCN included a letter from Ms. Kathy Crooks suggesting that the sole appropriate topic for the paper is environmental news of the West (HCN, 8/22/05: Leave sociology coverage to National Geographic).

Thought I’d let you know that this subscriber at least considers your brief to be “the West.” Not just the environment, though environmental issues will naturally play a big part of any publication that considers the West its topic.

As far as I’m concerned, if it happens in, involves or materially affects the West or the people in it, and it’s something I’m not likely to see covered in my home town paper, then it will not be out of place in HCN.

Bob Becker
Ogden, Utah

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If it affects the West, it belongs in HCN

by Bob Becker, High Country News
October 3, 2005

<h1>If it affects the West, it belongs in HCN</h1> <p class="byline">by Bob Becker, High Country News <br />October 3, 2005</p> <p>A recent issue of <i>HCN</i> included a<br /> letter from Ms. Kathy Crooks suggesting that the sole appropriate<br /> topic for the paper is environmental news of the West (HCN,<br /> 8/22/05: Leave sociology coverage to National Geographic).</p> <p> Thought I’d let you know that this subscriber at<br /> least considers your brief to be “the West.” Not just the<br /> environment, though environmental issues will naturally play a big<br /> part of any publication that considers the West its topic.</p> <p> As far as I’m concerned, if it happens in, involves<br /> or materially affects the West or the people in it, and it’s<br /> something I’m not likely to see covered in my home town<br /> paper, then it will not be out of place in <i>HCN.</i></p> <p><b>Bob Becker</b><br /> Ogden,<br /> Utah</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=189036">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">If it affects the West, it belongs in HCN</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-307/if-it-affects-the-west-it-belongs-in-hcn/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=111576&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-307/if-it-affects-the-west-it-belongs-in-hcn/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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