Sep 132009
Some news sources suggest only a few tens of thousands. Other suggest two million or more. I wasn’t there and I didn;t count ’em. I’ve noticed that while there are a lot of ground-level photographs, there are surprisingly few high-elevation shots that would give a really good view of the crowd. As with the Ares I motor test last week, if you can’t get above the crowd, you can’t really count the crowd. And thus pundits can pull any number they want right out of their asses, and proclaim the protest a massive success or a crashing failure.
Still, there are a few images that suggest that the size of the crowd was VAST. Take, for instance, this time lapse video on YouTube. I don\’t know how many people that shows… but, damn, it’s a lot.
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