The March for Our Lives was big, just not nearly as big as organizers said it was.
Multiple media outlets reported that the Saturday gun-control rally in D.C. drew more than 850,000 protesters, citing march organizers, which would have surpassed the massive 2017 Women’s March by more than 300,000.
The problem is that two separate expert analyses, using aerial imaging and photographs, put the march crowd in the 200,000 range, or about a quarter of the widely touted 850,000 figure.
Digital Design & Imaging Service in Falls Church, Virginia, estimated the peak crowd size at 202,796, with a 15 percent margin of error, according to CBS News.
A separate estimate by a team of research scientists led by G. Keith Still, professor at Manchester Metropolitan University in England, said the crowd was even smaller, pegging the number of protesters at about 180,000, according to the New York Times.
Mr. Still had placed the 2017 Women’s March crowd at the National Mall at about 470,000, which is in line with other estimates showing the number of protesters between 440,000 to 500,000.......
“While Washington, D.C. authorities have yet to give an official estimate, reports published by major news organizations put the crowd size at 850,000 people, which would make it the largest demonstration in the capital’s history,” said the release by 42West, a leading Los Angeles public-relations firm.
Those media reports were based on the organizers’ estimates, including a tweet by March for Our Lives that declared “more than 850,000 marched with us in DC yesterday.”.......
Full report here:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/26/march-our-lives-organizers-inflate-crowd-size-400/
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Yes, I know, everyone does it. Those "news" orginizations with an agenda took the orginizers at their word and published their vasty inflated numbers as fact. Cudos to CBS News and the New York Times for reporting the real numbers.
David