I was doing some research on the local hometown newspaper and I came across an interesting statistic. Klark Byrd, self-professed, self-made writer has a penchant for writing about the obvious love of his life: the Sony Playstation.
A search of the S-T archives shows, given the chance, Mr. Byrd loves to eschew any tidbit of information he can find about the gaming consoles, or the parent company, Sony. Nearly 30 times in the past year, we have learned many exciting stories, including recent hackings of the beloved playstation network.
While I suppose that a story about computer crime is something to ponder, is there nothing the prolific scribe would rather share with the 6500 residents of Sidney? Seriously, there has to be some kind of other news or opinion worthy of the Shakespeare of Cheyenne.
Not only does he love the playstation, he also revels in relating to us over and over about his tough childhood, his accidental career choices or his new found love of the ink and quill. I will give him credit, that when given direction, he can apply himself and do a good service to the community. Far too often, however, Mr. Byrd is often failed by his leadership and s left to fall back on the all to familiar and strangely non-poetic comfort of his unchallenging mind.
It would be truly nice if the S-T would actually develop some kind of actual guidance for its content. Guidance, possibly patterned after its Letters to the Editor policy...only once per week, and on a subject with interest to those few echo actually still buy the paper. That would take leadership. Unfortunately that is as hard to come by there as calm day on the high plains.
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