Imagine my delight, upon opening The Echo’s letters page last week and finding five nonsensical letters in a row! First up, we have Suzy from Bangalow lamenting how Landcare and camphor removal has buggered the Byron Creek.
Has she considered the degradation caused by the removal of native trees along the river bank over multiple decades? Probably not.
Then we have current hero, rabid recycler and green earth freak, Sapoty, lamenting the excessive price of dumping foam at the tip!
Next up comes the ever-present Green warrior Rod Murray, accusing Labor voters of aligning themselves with Trumpy. I won’t even comment on that one, but safe to say the Greens are being vastly done over by One Nation thanks to supporters like Rod.
Next comes Olsen, who is as entertaining as ever. Keep it up, mate.
Then we have the inner-Sydney fanatic, Jo O’Faith (she’s black Irish, don’t you know?) whose favourite word is I.
If you’re gonna write gibberish about brevetoxins, at least spell it properly.
My happiness was capped by Patricia Warren’s full-length ‘article’ on Bruns trees, which I only discovered was a ‘letter’ when I got to the end, ten minutes later. 200 words, Echo editor?
I thank The Echo for the unbridled joy I get when reading the above contributors.
They never any make any sense to me, but I’m probably just a cynical dickhead.
I’m sure those mentioned agree. But I’m just critiquing the critique. Keep ‘em coming scribes, and keep it brief eh?
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
