There should have been a box around the article about
Jeremy Parriott’s fun-hog playground with the words “Unpaid
Advertisement” at the top (HCN, 8/22/05: His playground pulls fun
hogs off the public lands).
Does your newspaper really
believe that 320 acres will keep hundreds of off-road vehicle
owners happily contained and off the thousands of acres of public
land currently used as a free playground? It is obvious that
Parriott plans to attract national attention to Moab for his “for
profit” motorized competitions and music festivals.
I
found Parriott’s opinion that the BLM should close some
trails to motorized use so that hikers could have places where they
would not hear motors to be sadly ironic, rather than altruistic.
Might closing trails make Area BFE more attractive?
From
now on, I will read your newspaper much more carefully, and be
reminded that bias and distortion can appear in any media. If
anything good came out of this article for me, it was the reminder
of the (sometimes god-awful) power of the press.
Carol Mayer
Tijeras, New Mexico
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Unpaid advertisement for Parriott?.
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