> Chuck0 wrote:
>
>> In one of these updates from Mr. Pitt, he claims that "CNN is
>> estimating the crowd here to be more than six hundred thousand strong."
>
>
> It sounds like one of those classic virus hoaxes: "It's been confirmed
> by CNN." I just looked at CNN's web report and they said "thousands."
> Reuters also says "thousands." I spoke with Liza on the phone a little
> while ago and she said that the initial turnout was disappointing but
> the crowd had grown in the last couple of hours. In any case, 600,000
> sounds wildly exaggerated.
C-SPAN is no longer covering the march, which tells me that the National Book Festival is a bit more interesting than watching people march pointlessly in the streets.
Chuck