CBC - Cheating & Bluffing Corporation (part 2)

Check out the National March For Life Video, posted by Suzanne from Big Blue Wave. What do you think; how many people were there? Judging from the video, there must have been at least a few thousands. The average crowd for the National March For Life is about 5000 to 6000. This year's goal was 10,000. Not sure if that was achieved but it's obvious that we are talking about thousands of participants, rather than hundreds.

Yet when the March For Life was finally mentioned in The National, it sounded like that:

About 1500 people gathered on the Parliament Hill to protest abortion. A dozen MPs were there, most of them - Conservative, none of them - in the Cabinet.

That's all, believe it or not. And yes, they said fifteen hundred, not fifty.

Peter Mansbridge doesn't wear glasses but after seeing the video I bet he needs them badly.

Update as of May 11, 19:40 ADT: There were about 7000 participants. Campaign Life President Jim Hughes stood on the corner with the counter to get the accurate numbers. He said 6800 people participated in the March For Life while 100 or so stayed on the Parliament Hill after the rally was over. These numbers look much closer to what could be seen in the video and the pictures.

Here's a great article by John Pacheco about the media ignoring the March. Check out this picture too. Looks like the crowd was somewhat larger than 1500, wasn't it? Nearly five times as large I would say.