So when the 5000 or so show up, will it get massive media coverage...”the biggest crowd ever”.
Undoubtedly. It will be greatly exaggerated as well as overcovered.
The average attendance of the National Mall as posted by someone here the other day is 68K per day based on national park estimates of 25,000,000 visitors per year in 2008.
( 25,000,000/365 days )