Knight Ridder gets it right: "hundreds of thousands"

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/9531220.htm

Knight Ridder Newspapers

NEW YORK - (KRT) - For more than four hours Sunday afternoon, hundreds of thousands of chanting, mostly well-behaved protesters streamed through the canyons of Manhattan, denouncing President Bush and the war in Iraq.

Uniformed police officers lined the sun-drenched protest route girding for violence, but there were only 134 arrests. Organizers said 400,000 people turned out - well above the quarter of a million expected. New York police declined to provide a crowd estimate. Protesters poured past Madison Square Garden, where the Republican Nation Convention will begin on Monday, for 4 1/2 hours.

The huge crowd was largely well behaved. As the afternoon wore on and protesters continued to stream up Seventh Avenue past the Garden, the march took on a carnival-like atmosphere. Giant puppets caricaturing Bush bobbed above the marchers. Steel drums pounded out a festive beat. A woman in a pink and green bikini made the march with "no one died when Clinton lied" scrawled across her chest in red lipstick.

The protesters ran the gamut from aging hippies and suburban schoolteachers in khakis to 20-something feminists in hot pink and muscular veterans just back from Iraq.

"The war is wrong. We were lied to," said U.S. Marine Rob Sarra, 32, of Chicago.

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[Cha]

1. Tell this to fucking tweety who said it looked like his 60's crowd.

"The protesters ran the gamut from aging hippies and suburban schoolteachers in khakis to 20-something feminists in hot pink and muscular veterans just back from Iraq.

"The war is wrong. We were lied to," said U.S. Marine Rob Sarra, 32, of Chicago."

[Pallas180]

3. Even drudgery's main story is pretty good and pics here

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4. I heard him earlier say they looked like him and people he knows now.

Teachers, cops, just regular people. I didn't hear him say they were all hippies but they are certainly not reporting 400,000 people.

Earlier, MSNBC said they were trying to get the NYPD to give them an estimate as to the number but they hadn't yet and they may not give out an approximation.

[ClassWarrior]

2. I'm proud of us.

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6. I love your sig line!

:thumbsup: Way up!

[5X]

5. Reuters also got it right...

have been to all of the other major news'
web sites, they all say tens of thousands, so did npr on their
evening news.

<http://www.reuters.com/>

[flordehinojos]

7. the guy on one of the loca channels miami-ft.lauderdale area said 30,000

protestesters, and added "not as many as expected"...what do they have to gain by minimizing such massive protest? how can this guy ever expect to be believable again if ever we are able to kick the bush regime out of power and truthful journalistic reporting comes back to the foreground?!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. Freeperland claims it wa just a few thousand marching in a circle.

But they also think Dubya is the incarnation of Christ.

Gi figure.

[peekaloo]

9. Mush-Mouth Brokaw on NBC said, "tens of thousands"......

then cut to an on-scene reporter who gushed at the protest lining 45 city blocks and being well above the predicted 250,000. :eyes:

During a central park report some guy in the background was holding a sign that read, "NBC & GE making bombs that kill Iraqis".