And a Good Point

On March for Life media coverage:

This story happens every year. The mainstream media doesn’t cover the March for Life enough. And when it does, its coverage is incompetent or biased. These complaints happen every year too. Why is that? It’s not the journalists’ job to report on every event in Washington. They have a world to cover. However, it is the job of pro-life leaders to secure as much accurate and favorable media coverage as possible. Media companies need to be convinced the March for Life is important. Decades into the March for Life, they aren't convinced yet...

I think this is an actual explanation of a point Kathy Shaidle has made repeatedly in her blunt way. If the pro-life leadership was truly serious, the movement would do things differently. I'm not in any way a pro-life leader, so I'm not sure how much right I have to comment. But at the very least, the above comment seems correct. How much lead time does the March give reporters? I doubt most people really pay attention to the upcoming anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It's the sort of thing that gets mentioned the next day in the newspapers or on the news, and people look at each other and go, "Was that yesterday? Wow, I had no idea." And surely there are ways of ginning up greater attention ahead of time.