While I find many of your recent articles highly relevant, even vital, to those of us who love (or loathe) the West, the quality of writing and editing is sometimes disappointing. Hal Herring stepped well past the line of good judgment with his comment that it would be fun to hunt coyotes with a machine gun. What was he thinking, and what were you thinking when you allowed this to go to print? If you plan to continue firing from the hip in the midst of an otherwise important story, perhaps you should consider renaming your paper “Coyote News” with a nod to the cable news giant.

David C. Jones
Evergreen, Colorado

This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Maybe Murdoch will bid for HCN next.

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