From May of 2000, the New York Times wrote:
And the New York Times story about yesterday's larger crowd, the report was:
“Organizers of the Million Mom March said their crowd numbered 750,000 in Washington; the number could not be independently confirmed as the federal Park Police no longer gives crowd estimates after years of controversy over how many people attend events like these. It appeared to be one of the largest gatherings on the Mall in recent years, and it clearly was a showing that gladdened the hearts of longtime gun control organizers.”
Oh, and the story isn’t on the main page at http://nytimes.com/, nor at http://www.washingtonpost.com/.
The demonstrators numbered well into the tens of thousands, though the police declined to estimate the size of the crowd.
The comparison is the same at the the LA times. and the Washington Post. Nothing on the main web page today about yesterday’s event in Washington DC. I was actually shocked that it isn’t news in the Washington Post.
Nor, locally here at the New Jersey Shore, is it prominently featured; this morning the Asbury Park Press (a Gannett publication) has relegated the AP "Thousands March" article to about 10% of page 25A. The balance of the page is advertising. And not a word on the editorial page this morning.
I had hopes for the Press when on Saturday morning they published a fair and balanced account of the Tea Party Express rally in Toms River on Friday evening on Page one (about 3,000 participants estimated; there were at least 2K when I had to leave). Must have been a clueless junior editor on duty that night, who did not know enough to bury that story. Or, wonder of wonders, a real journalist who has managed not to be spotted as a liability to the left yet!