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????
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........
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
The COMMUNIST broadcasting system is full of sh!t...they are a disgrace to their trade. No wonder why they are going broke. Sink you ba$tards!!
That first photo doesn’t bear any resemblance to pictures we have seen online. The Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool aren’t even in that picture. This looks like a picture taken of an empty field somewhere - does anyone see any recognizable landmarks here? I sure don’t.
We just looked at the Google Satellite view. The picture they show is a little piece of the Mall North East of the Washington Monument. Look for the triangular walkway and the stand of trees.
They weren’t even fracking looking at the Lincoln Memorial!
Their pic shows something like a bandstand or stage with the crowd gathered around. It wasn’t even taken the same day! I’ve never seen such an outrageous lie in the media.
The problem with taking big pictures of the entire area and using them to say the crowd was huge is that there are a lot of people on the mall every saturday.
How do you know that the people standing several blocks from the main event, over by the trees on the left and right of the reflecting pool, are there for the actual event?
Of course, a lot of people might well stand in the shade, but wouldn’t you still expect the entire area around the stage to get filled up with people?
Estimating crowds, and determining who was there for what, is really beyond the capability of a few photographs. You need a more pro-active counting mechanism.
For example, set up a phone counter like american idol that includes caller id exclusion, and tell the crowd to call at several times during the event. Everybody with a phone calls in at least once, and you get a count of everybody who has a cell phone at least.
Then you ask those without cell phones to raise their hands, and you take a picture. Later, you can estimate the percentage who raised their hands, and use it to adjust your numbers.
But mostly, people don’t want an actual count of people at an event. They want to be able to say “500,000”, or “1,000,000”, without regard to the actual numbers.
I tried to look at the additional photos. They are being hosted at a Microsoft Photo site. Only Microsoft could manage to have a simple photo site that is impossible for users to access because of “older versions” of software. They are stupid jpegs, any program can view them, but the site is tied to MS Silverlight, which apparently being a Microsoft product is incompatable with itself, requiring the “latest version” to accomplish a simple task.
Since I don’t have administrative access to put new crappy MS products on my computer, I can’t look at simple pictures? This is why I hate Microsoft. They must work hard at making sure you have to keep getting their latest software.