A Letter From The Editor
I’m Giving Up On My Quest Of
Being Liked
I
’d like to think that I don’t give a fig
if people like me or not. For years, I
labored under a misconception. But,
recently, I faced the fact that I actu-
ally do care if most people like me,
and I’m determined to stop it — right
now.
I’m in a career where I express
myself and send those expressions
out to thousands of people, many of
whom pay to read the stuff I write,
along with the stuff I pay others
to write — stuff I view as worth
reading. Mine is not a career for the
emotionally delicate. I believe that
informing people in an entertaining
way is a pretty important thing to do.
Tech industry entrepreneur Oliver
Emberton once said, “The only way
to avoid pissing people off is to do
nothing important.”
I write a crime column every
weekday morning in the PCT News
Blast that targets a niche market. It
pretty much targets that small group
of people that detest crime, want to
stay informed, and are interested in
what’s going on in our community —
the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I cater to readers who tend to
obey the law and would like the
other people to do the same. It’s not
for everybody. Most of our readers
find humor in it. If you don’t, that’s
OK.
The direction we’re taking may
have something to do with the fact
that I spent five months in the hospi-
tal when I was a little girl. I almost
didn’t make it. It happened because
a lonely man from Weatherford got
completely doo-doo-faced in Fort
Worth, then drove back — on the
wrong side of Fort Worth Highway.
He plowed head-on into my parent’s
sedan with his farm truck. He
suffered a scratch on his forehead,
and had to suffer through the ordeal
of getting three stitches (ouch!).
Needless to say, I’m not terribly
tolerant of substance-abusers who
put the lives of others in jeopardy
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