Media leads on NY protest march

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The Washington Post
NEW YORK, Aug. 29 — Vice President Dick Cheney launched the Republican convention Sunday in a speech hailing President Bush’s war leadership, as more than 200,000 demonstrators took to the streets here in protest of the Bush administration’s policies.

Associated Press
NEW YORK — Bearing flag-draped boxes resembling coffins and fly-swatters with President Bush’s image, more than 100,000 protesters swarmed Manhattan’s streets Sunday on the eve of the Republican National Convention to demand that the president be turned out of office.

Cox News Service
NEW YORK — More than 100,000 protesters vented their anger at the president and the Iraq war Sunday, pounding drums, waving signs and chanting “no more Bush.”

Hearst Newspapers
NEW YORK — More than 100,000 demonstrators led by civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and filmmaker Michael Moore marched Sunday through Manhattan on the eve of the Republican National Convention to protest President Bush and the war in Iraq.

Knight Ridder News Service
NEW YORK — Delegates arriving for a Republican National Convention that will showcase some diversity of opinion in their party shared a tense city Sunday with an orderly sea of protesters displaying a wider — and quite different — range of concerns.
A mile-long throng of demonstrators, galvanized largely by opposition to the war in Iraq, surged through midtown Manhattan and past Madison Square Garden, where more than 4,800 GOP delegates and alternates will meet through Thursday night.

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1. The article I read in Knight Ridder said hundreds of thousands.

[imax2268]

2. I'm sorry...

but that looked like more than 100,000 or 200,000 people...

[Kierkegaard]

3. It's odd

that if you sum all the stories, you get a pretty close estimate of how many showed for the demonstration.