Rumor... CNN reports 600k at protest?

[Kevin Spidel]

Can't find the source... i am here. There is A LOT! But 650k??? I would not doubt it... but I am a bit bias... i am in a sea of people with Pitt right now in the middle of it.

What numbers have you heard?

[annabanana]

1. from answer's stage...250k

(I think more)

[KyndCulture]

2. CNN's only report said 2000.

There is virtually NO news coverage at all.

[MelissaB]

3. One of the speakers on CSPAN said over 250,000

and that the WH is surrounded.

[seabeyond]

4. i get k baily on cnn. cspan bullshit. no march n/t

[dutchdemocrat]

5. Here's what CNN is posting

at CNN International...

More than 2,000 people gathered on the Ellipse hours before the showcase demonstration past the White House, the first wave of what organizers said would be the largest Washington rally since the war began.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/antiwar.ap/index.html

Ridiculous

[deadparrot]

10. 2000 *HOURS* before the protests began.

They weren't talking about the current numbers. :)

[dutchdemocrat]

16. No

They are NOT talking about current numbers.

And THAT is the story linked from the front page of CNN international.

[deadparrot]

24. Read my post. That's exactly what I said. nt

[MelissaB]

26. But this is the number that keeps showing up in news articles.

I hope somebody writes something else that gets picked up as much or more than this one. :(

[Atman]

6. Nothing. NADA. But GET ISRAEL OUT OF THE PALESTINIAN HOMELAND!

Oh, was this about Iraq?

[goclark]

7. Where is the MARCH!

[Cassandra]

18. Good question.

Anyone watching C-SPAN now would see a rag-tag bunch of people listening to a few speakers. The majority of people are now marching; why aren't the cameras on them?

[VolcanoJen]

8. Well, I just rewound my Tivo/DVR, tuned to CNN, an hour back.

Not a single word about the march in the last hour. Not even at the top of the hour did they mention it.

[annabanana]

9. no CNN coverage

watching traffic cams here...
(pissed off)

[Henny Penny]

21. You have to get your news of what's going on in your capital

city from traffic cams...!!!

No wonder you're pissed off!

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[helderheid]

11. The revolution will not be televised.

[Cassandra]

12. Rumor...CNN said anything about the protest?

I've been alternating between C-SPAN and CNN and CNN hasn't said a thing.

[smurfygirl]

13. I heard over 250K with tons of people still coming from all directions

so looks like the count is still iffy right now. From the street cams it looks like well over 150K.

[fasttense]

14. A quarter of a million people and not one corporate TV news show can

be bothered to report it and give us some REAL news. Bunch of corporate whores. I'm so pissed. The first one of them to give me a helo shot of the protesters surrounding the WH I will be their viewer for life I swear.

[malaise]

19. Well we should all send them email after email to find out

why they are not covering the march given the number of anti-war protesters. We should all save those traffic cam pix because people are spilling over into several streets.

[wellstone dem]

20. And CSPAN is making it look like there are about 60 people

[Kevin Spidel]

22. it is because they are covering the rally while people are MARCHING

in the streets. the streets are flooded... but no cameras from cspan there.

[helderheid]

25. Someone needs to grab the camera! :)

[kerrygoddess]

15. That's the word from the ground and

William Rivers Pitt...

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=671

[DODI]

17. Pitt just posted the CNN story on his blog

CNN is estimating the crowd here to be more than six hundred thousand strong.

If CNN says it, it must be true.

Wow.

http://www.truthout.org/campcaseydc.shtml

Could it be CNN International?

[VolcanoJen]

28. That must just be a rumor circulating through the crowd...

... because, I'm tellin' ya, I rewound CNN back one hour and they never once even mentioned the rally, let alone the turnout.

Interesting rumor, though.

[NoodleyAppendage]

23. Headline CNN reported "organizers estimate 100K" about 10min ago.

Headline News did not comment on the current crowd numbers, but only reported that "organizers estimate that 100K will attend." Also, they have paired this sneaky wording with visual of the most sparsely populated areas of the rally field. Complete bullshit...

JB

[glitch]

27. Good! Everytime they do this they discredit themselves. Once you realize

they are lying you don't go to them for information. And they wonder why their viewers numbers are dropping.

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