[lbo-talk] RNC Protests II

[joanna bujes]

Yes, indeed. Looks like the NYT is telling something of the actual 
story. There was an emphasis on the "family" component of the anti-GOP 
demonstration, with people quoted being Repubs with second thoughts 
rather than the lefty fringe. Looks like there is some kind of consensus 
that Bush needs to go.

Joanna

Michael Pollak wrote:


>
> On Sun, Aug 29, Chuck Grimes wrote:
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>> It's interesting that the demo numbers are no longer estimated by 
>> news orgs, but given within quotes as police estimates or organizer 
>> estimates---as if some concrete reality could not be observed by a 
>> news reporters, but was simply just another debating point. Pretty 
>> slimy.
>
>
> Except that in this case it led to the NYT (certainly the paper of 
> record when it comes to a national event in its backyard) entirely 
> endorsing the organizers' estimate on their front page:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/30/politics/campaign/30protest.html
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> I've never seen that before in my life.  They didn't even mention an 
> alternative estimate.
>
> Michael
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