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[ Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005 ]

Letter to the Editor
Paper should cover anti-war protesters

I am disappointed by the coverage of the events this weekend ("Anti-war protesters worthy of coverage," Sept. 27).

Monday there was an Associated Press article about the 400 people supporting the war on Sunday in Washington, DC, yet no article about the near 200,000 person protest taking place the day before.

Emerging political figures such as Cindy Sheehan and long time figure Rev. Jesse Jackson lead the march on Washington, while no one of renowned influence participated on Sunday, yet the Collegian felt one story was more important than another. With controversial coverage in the past, the Collegian appears to have outfoxed its readers again by only presenting one side to an obviously two-sided situation. Past complaints by moderate and liberal groups appear to have fallen, once again, on the unsympathetic ears of a struggling (at best)-to-be-unbiased news source.

Maybe criticism and dissent are not interesting to the Collegian and maybe protecting the conservative agenda is.

Robey Patrick
graduate - Spanish literature



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