I wasn't able to travel to Washington, D.C. to attend the taxpayer protest march today. I was already committed to volunteering in my town to help create a public park. I spent the morning in the rain clearing paths of overgrown weeds. I'm watching the c-span coverage of the event now, and there sure does look like a lot of people there. When I search google news, there are not as many articles on the event as one would expect if say, there were a couple of hundred people demonstrating in support of Obama's health care plan. I've heard 75,000, 450,000 and 1.2 million as the number of people who attended today's event. Most of the media articles I've seen say thousands or tens of thousands.

This video from a traffic camera seems to suggest a helluv a lot of people marched, and from previous experience a lot more show up at the post march rally than actually marched.

I was in D.C. last year for another march. I recall the media reporting hundreds of people there, CNN even saying 800. I personally watched thousands pass me by as they entered the capitol, so I know there were more than hundreds. I am not sure I have a large enough supply of salt to deal with interpreting these media reports, even at the rate of one grain per story.