[lbo-talk] collapsing statues

[Kenton A. Hoover]

I did watch the whole thing, in 'real time'. There were lots of long shots that showed the crowd. 
I'd put the total crowd at about 200 (that was from stilling the TiVo and doing a quick count, but 
not all of the people in crowd were working on the statues. It was difficult to sort out the locals 
from the newsphotogs trying to get 'the shot' for their newsrag.

And I've seen the film shown over-and-over lots of news channels. There are also long shots there. 
Even if you see just the 15-30 second version, you can easily see that the square is hardly 
thronged.

You can easily see that the crowd isn't that big from the 'main' news channel sources. You don't 
need some 'magic analysis' by Indymedia.

--On Friday, April 11, 2003 14.49 +0800 kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote:
> Didn't you watch it on TV?
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