First Draft by Tim Porter

The Numbers Game II

The San Francisco Chronicle ran a follow-up story on the disagreement between organizers and police about the size of last weekend’s anti-war protest. It had a clever lede (“Everyone's estimate is wrong. Probably.”), which was a bit ironic because the Chronicle appeared to be the only major paper that used organizer’s 500,000-person estimate for the Washington, D.C., march without any attribution. Much has been made of the counting by all sides over at Instapundit.