America's Media Is Over-Playing The So-Called Peace Rallies

I have been intrigued, and incensed, at the amount of time and space America's media has given the so-called peace rallies. Our local paper, for instance, had a 24-column-inch story under a four-column headline with a three column photograph the other day. The story was NOT local ... it was from Gannett News Service. The same issue of that newspaper had another story from the Associated Press on world-wide protests. This one filled 30 column-inches under a three-column headline, plus a threecolumn photograph. But the local paper is doing better than some, for at least it ran a story in that same edition that said a local peace rally was coming up, and in the story they told about a "support our troops" rally being held in Dahlonega. That one was 12 column-inches and ran under a one-column headline saying: "Peace Rally Group: It's Not Too Late To Stop The War." The headline gave no mention of the pro-America rally in Dahlonega, although the paper did cover both of them after they happened. And same edition, same newspaper you will find a listing of three protest web sites where one can get anti-war information ... but no web sites telling why we are going to war, although plenty are available. For a local newspaper that doesn't have much room for news anyway that strikes me as pretty heavy coverage. We don't even get that much coverage on the county commission bruhaha.

So, I've got to ask: for those of us who think what America is doing is the RIGHT thing, do we have to stop doing worth-while things and go raise hell in the streets like they are doing in San Francisco to get our voices heard? And if we did go to the streets, would America's media give us the same amount of coverage they give the anti-war, anti-America groups?

This is Gordon Sawyer, and may the wind always be at your back.