In her Nov. 18 letter to The Lantern, Karen Cogley complains that a peace rally held on Nov. 9 was ignored by the media.
The Lantern did, in fact, print a short article about the event after it happened, stating that there were a couple dozen people who attended, several of whom gave speeches.
The media are not required to give free publicity for political rallies. Newspapers and television stations receive many notices about upcoming media events from groups of all political persuasions who want free publicity.
I knew about the rally from reading a flier. I am also opposed to starting a war against Iraq, so I was interested. Then I read it was scheduled at 1 p.m. on Saturday and had to laugh.
Use a little common sense. Short of having your rally take place at 4 a.m. in a Licking County cornfield, you would have difficulty picking a worse time and place than during the middle of a home football game, which, for what it is worth, was scheduled years ago. OSU football games are the biggest media events in Columbus, as anyone who actually reads the papers and watches the news already knows.
There are 168 hours in the week. The football game lasted three hours.
Price Robert CopeOSU staff
