[UnBlinkingEye]

Just curious but where did the "official" estimate come from? I support your cause but suspect the estimate in the light of the failure of "official sources" to provide estimates of the number of people involved in recent antiwar protests.

[concerned about politics]

but suspect the estimate in the light of the failure of "official sources" to provide estimates of the number of people involved in recent antiwar protests.

The only reason they hesitate to estimate the anti-Bush rally is because only about 1/10th of their original planned estimate showed up, and they were just the communists.
I suppose the liberal press decided they didn't want to bring the failure to light.

[Corin Stormhands]

I support your cause but suspect the estimate in the light of the failure of "official sources" to provide estimates of the number of people involved in recent antiwar protests.

The National Park Service stopped giving estimates a number of years back, in part because of the grief they would get from group organizers. My guess is this estimate was from Nellie Gray and the march organizers. They're usually pretty accurate.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Usually, "Official sources" for rallies in/near Washington, DC are from the Park Service.

Of course, the unbiased national news sources use "official sources" when they want to confirm (enhance) the number, and "rally organizers" or "protest sponsers" when the rally actually has too few people to honestly count.


I still remember one "Promise Keepers" rally in DC where the ONLY TV picture sent was filled with plumber crack photos of the rear ends of men kneeling in prayer (followoed by several minutes of woman's lib "experts" PROTESTING the christian men rally!), yet that one conservative (pro-men at least) rally had 6 times the people of a previous weeks' "liberal" something-or-other protest ... which was very sympathetically treated and talked about in many TV stories.

[Catspaw]

The Park Service stopped giving offical estimates of the crowds after the Nation of Islam threatened to sue them about the count of the attendance at the Million Man March. This is an "estimate" of the crowd. It just isn't the "official estimate," unless they've gotten a count from another law enforcement agency (or another government agency) gave them an "official count." If it is an "official estimate," I'd be curious to find out the source.