MSM say "thousands" - I call BS! It's MILLIONS. Say it: MILLIONS

[blm]

Millions across the nation showed up and are marching.

Millions. You Fuckin' cowards.

SAY IT!

MILLIONS!

[mr_lebowski]

1. Count on our corporate media to downplay progressive accomplishments and crowd sizes

It's pretty much a past-time for those weasels ...

[blm]

2. They did it with anti-war marches. NEVER AGAIN!

MILLIONS!

[brooklynite]

24. You know how thy could have downplayed the marches? They could have not covered them...

Too many people seem to WANT to find a conspiracy when they look.

[blm]

26. Didn't post that it was a conspiracy. Just pointed out the downplaying of the numbers.

That was done with anti-war protests in 2003, too. Pointing out the reluctance of the media to report the numbers with greater accuracy than they are in their initial and current headlines isn't a scream of 'Conspiracy!', it's a deserved criticism of the typical caution that they tend to employ over protests of this nature.

[bdamomma]

3. Millions

of course this is Corporate news outlet. Screwing with the numbers.

[Grammy23]

4. On MSNBC Per Tweetys estimate relayed by Brian Williams the DC crowd alone

Was close to a million people. One city! So not all the MSM purposely underestimated the size of the gatherings. I told my husband that there were marches in all 50 states and he was impressed. These young people have done an awesome job in such a short time. I hope the coalition they are building will keep building and growing. The old gray heads (and some with less gray hair) in DC better pay attention. These kids are not going away. Like my generation felt about Vietnam Nam, like the people who marched with MLK, they have their cause and they won’t be deterred.

[blm]

5. There's one. Keep 'em real: MILLIONS!

!

[bdamomma]

6. Millions were there

they need monetary back up, does anyone know if there are any organizations to give to?

Move on perhaps?

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Getting honest!

MSM is so friggin afraid of their President that they helped elect. Watch for the snarky feedback for certain members of that group.

Some of us remember the smart ass attacks form MSM in the Late fifties and Sixties.

[brooklynite]

8. Setting aside Fox, WHICH "MSM" are you complaining about?

[blm]

10. Throughout the coverage both CNN and MSNBC were saying thousands or 100s of thousands.

Matthews, after the end of the march, said it may be over a million. So far, that was the only MSM voice heard to use that word.

Print media's early reports are ALL 'thousands'....so far.



NYT:
"Hundreds of thousands of protesters, outraged by a recent massacre at a South Florida school and energized by the students who survived, thronged in streets across the globe in protests on Saturday, demanding action against gun violence in their most ambitious show of strength yet."

Hundreds of thousands across the globe? There were a million in DC, alone.

[marybourg]

11. I saw a chyron (is that the right word?)

on CNN saying " massive crowds".

[blm]

12. The word 'millions' is frightening to most media.

Usually when attached to protest movements.

[blm]

14. MSNBC chryon is currently saying 'hundreds of thousands across the globe'

which is what NYT is saying.

BS!

[DesertRat]

9. The crowd is larger than the one at 45's inaugural!

[democratisphere]

28. Watch it! The crowd counting police may send out their posse to get you!

[DFW]

13. Media math

About five thousand to ten thousand thousands.

[BeyondGeography]

15. The NYT is doing the same bullshit

“Hundreds of thousands” around the country is their lead sentence right now. There were hundreds of thousands in NYC alone today. Bless that liberal media.

[blm]

16. They got away with this BS in 2003 - never again. Correct them EVERY TIME.

.

[blm]

17. NBC News headline: Hundreds of thousands. WSJ: Hundreds of thousands.

.

[brooklynite]

18. Isn't it amazing that both liberals and conservative claim the "MSM" is working for the other side?

[blm]

19. Not at all. Math is math. How many marched in NYC today? How many in DC?

Math is math.

Not getting why there would be a reason to flag this as anything else, brook.

[brooklynite]

20. Can you point to an official total from any location at this point?

I'm not remotely troubled by the coverage to date.

[blm]

21. No - but I'm not the NYT, CNN, NBC, WSJ who ARE using the 100s of thou headlines.

Not sure why you think my pointing out their widespread use of an obviously inaccurate headline is the problem here.

BTW....When did it become wrong to call out media for inaccurate headlines? I wasn't away from DU for THAT long, was I?

[brooklynite]

22. If you don't have official results of "millions", then "hundreds of thousands" isn't "inaccurate"

[blm]

23. The visual proof was there in DC alone- the numbers being reported from 800 other marches

kept it below a million for their headlines and that's ok, eh? Hundreds of thousands across the globe....they say.

Still not getting why you would key on this.

[BeyondGeography]

25. There were 800 marches around the country and about 800k in DC alone

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-march-for-our-lives-coverage-20180324-story.html

[Atticus]

30. Sorry, but that is the kind of polite obedience to THEIR rules that these *!#@% jerks are

counting on! Exactly WHO provides "officials results"? The PTB---which includes the elected officials bought and paid for by the NRA.

My wife and I participated in an anti-war March in DC in 2007. We filled 16 blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue for SIXTEEN BLOCKS!

The next morning we were shocked to read that "hundreds" of anti-war protestors had "been almost outnumbered by patriotic counter-protestors". They were peddling bullshit then and they're still shovelling.

MILLIONS! Believe your "lyin' eyes".

[pnwmom]

33. The DC parks doesn't make official counts anymore, so you are asking for the impossible. n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. I'm in Santa Fe, and I was at our march.

My best guess is about 2,000 people, possibly as many as 3,000. So with the hundreds of marches across the country, it is easily in the millions.

[Meowmee]

29. Im only just

watching now having missed my own local march due to not being well, my father said MSNBC and Cnn said it was 800,000 to 1 mil maybe. Good to see such a great turnout etc. the news notices on my tablet earlier said thousands. That was for DC, if you count the rest of the country and more it’s millions I guess. Channel 4 NYC just said 1/2 mil.

[Gothmog]

31. BREAKING NEWS: The #MarchForOurLives rally has officially surpassed Trumps inauguration twice.

Link to tweet

[spanone]

32. we will never get a fair shake from the media, never forget... $2Billion free airtime for trump

[Cattledog]

34. CBS Evening News led by saying "Millions marched".

[blm]

37. Good that at least ONE of the majors did that.

.

[jmowreader]

35. They only missed by three or four orders of magnitude

[Gothmog]

36. For this thread

Link to tweet

[blm]

38. Grazie Gothmog - just what it needed

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