You apparently haven’t read anything that Timothy Egan has written. He’s far from a “hack” and has a pretty firm grip on land use issues in the West.
I read his article on Bundy, and I'm not impressed.
Egan lapped up the government's Bundy vomit, and puked it back up for his readers.
I've crossed swords with writers who were published in the Times before. Their credentials don't easily impress me.
It's interesting that Egan's wife is considered a "right winger" by the Watermelons in Seattle. LOL!