The head of a national health organization is to speak in your city tomorrow evening. He is on a speaking tour in which he is calling for less media attention to exotic and rare diseases and greater stress on the prevention of diseases that afflict large numbers of people.

In his talks, he has emphasized that teenagers who receive classroom sex education are less likely to engage in early or high-risk sex, and he has described violence as a greater threat to health than infectious diseases. He has stated that those who purchase handguns have a 40 percent risk of harming themselves because so many go off accidentally or are used in anger.

In the last city in which he spoke, several organizations picketed the auditorium in which he spoke, and there were fights between those picketing and those supporting sex education in the schools and gun control.

The sponsors of the talk ask you to give minimal emphasis to the speaker's coming appearance. They hope that by limiting prior reports, you will keep opposition groups from mustering a large following to picket the talk. How do you respond to this request?