PRESS: Bias against two-legged Wolves

I’ve got no beef with wolves being shot. I’m not in favor of their complete eradication, but I don’t think it’s healthy to disallow hunting them altogether either.

I do have an axe to grind with the Press over the story “CHS grad shoots wolf,” however.

The front page treatment of this story is especially grating because of both the timing and the headline: “CHS grad shoots wolf”

Lake City High School basketball team defeated Post Falls for their first trip to State in almost a decade, and the Press leads with a story about a CHS grad. And I seriously don’t think the imagery of a CHS grad shooting a wolf - which is the Lake City High School mascot - was an accident.

This paper is so CHS biased that it isn’t funny. I still recall the headlline on a high school sports story that read, “CHS boys fall in OT.” They had fallen to... Lake City. Wouldn’t “Lake City wins in OT” have made more sense?

As for the Wolf shooting story, if you absolutely must put it front page... why not just, “Local shoots wolf?” How is his alma mater of any bearing on the story? If CHS boys had won the league basketball title, that would have been front-page.

The only way this headline and story are front page is if the wolf had been taken while prowling CHS schoolgrounds. Using it to upstage Lake City’s accomplishment was purely assinine.

MARK PATTON

Coeur d’Alene