Posted on 09/01/2010 10:30:52 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
Has cBS ever felt the need to defend their crowd estimates before?
Fake but accurate.
This will only have any validity if they make direct comparisons to the Inauguration aerials.
What TIME were these pictures taken????
What is CBS???
The state-run propaganda ministry can say whatever they want but there won’t be able to lie on November 2.
Not only were there thousands more than this pitiful TV station reported, after it was over, there was no trash on the ground as there has been from other ‘rally’s’ for the left. Conservatives are also very ‘green’ in their behavior........
Soon cbs will only have a market consisting of persons in old folks homes wondering why Walter is wearing a wig.
Sorry, I missed a chunk of article when I cut and pasted. The missing paragraphs:
"We took a lot of shots under the trees and higher up by just changing the balloon altitude," he said. "So what might have been a negative with an airplane and certainly a negative with a satellite was a very strong position with a balloon."Though there was restricted airspace on the south side of the reflecting pool, airspace was not restricted where the crowd was gathered, allowing the company to position the balloon in "the very center of the crowd - dead in the middle of it," Westergard said.
The photos were taken at noon, which Beck's representatives suggested would be the peak of the event, which ran from 10 AM to slightly after 1 PM. Taking the pictures then meant counting both those who were late to the event because of subway or traffic delays and those who left early to avoid the crowds afterward.
The company generated its own estimate and asked Doig to separately one on his own. Though Doig and AirPhotosLive.com employ slightly different methodologies, both use a method that involves laying grids over the high-resolution images and counting the density per unit of each grid cell. Westergard provided the image below to help show how the estimates are made. It's of a Tea Party Express event on April 15th that the company calculated attracted 4,436 people.
Bingo! The only time I saw those balloons up in the air was very early in the day, between 10:30-11:00AM. At that point in time there were still people streaming into the areas by the thousands. As a matter of fact, tens of thousands of people were still standing in line at the Metro stations all around the city!
You are right on targt with your comment. The CBS estimate means nothing!!! The crowd face and impact mean everything!!!
... famous for his 'statistical analysis' for the Miami Herald that concluded Gore won the Florida vote.
I was at the Beach Boys concert on the Mall on July 4th 1982 (best time of my life!). They estimated the crowd at half a million. From my observation and pictures I saw later, that was less than what the crowd size was last Saturday.
Just sayin’.
That estimate of 87,000 was likely close for the photo shown, but where ever and when ever that photo was taken it it was not the crowd seen in the other pictures. I’m surprised that CBS didn’t do what Reuters has done..Photoshop the image with patches of grass crudely inserted to cover the crowd.
In other words, SeeBS relied on a SWAG* rather than a WAG*
* SWAG = Scientific Wild Assed Guess
* WAG = ... You Freepers can figure it out
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