After reading the opinion section of yesterday's Collegian, I found out that a few people are "disappointed" and even "jaded" over the media coverage of the presidential inauguration.

What was interesting to me is that they were complaining about The Daily Collegian's coverage on the protesters during the inaugural parade.

Mr. Ray Lattanzio, as a native Washingtonian, perhaps you should have purchased this past Sunday's edition of The Washington Post instead of waiting to hear the nation's news from the Collegian. And you should have grabbed The New York Times while you were at it.

If you had read them, you would have had a hard time finding the articles on the protesters, let alone be disappointed in the mass media coverage of them.

If you ask me, I feel there has been an overwhelming shift in attitude in dominant mass media and fortunately for Collegian readers, we get to see more than a conservative side of current events.

And Mr. Andrew Wess, this is not the '60s, and this is not Kent State, and luckily for us it happens to be the year 2001. Those who oppose our current president are a part of history, and I believe that all of history should be held with high regard, even some of the most horrific events. Without history, we would not learn from our mistakes, and without newspapers like the Collegian, history might repeat itself. Let's not let that happen in 2004.