As I read this opinion piece from The Salt Lake Tribune, all I could utter were long, deep sighs. Like most opinion pieces these days, it’s from a person who feels aggrieved about something and who sent a letter to the editor. The publication then hit “Print” with the helluva headline "Opinion: ATVs are spoiling Utah’s canyon country" attached to it. It’s blatant clickbait and something that I hope most folks disregard whenever they see “Opinion: X,Y and Z” in any headline.
But rather than clicking away, I kept reading it and became further frustrated with both the paper and the writer as the words within fail even the most minor of fact-checking, rely on a lot of anecdotal evidence, and offer such shortsighted thoughts and opinions that if any of the writer’s words were taken seriously by lawmakers, everyone would likely lose access to public lands, not just those “snarling machines” blowing past the author’s campsite.
