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Article #450Re: Crowd size at abortion rights march
From: Brian Holland
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 20:25
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 20:25
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In article <17975@oasys.dt.navy.mil> jbrown@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jennifer Brown) writes: > >Last evening on Television I watched a news program that was investigating >how crowd size was determined for events such as these. The old method >that was used was refered to as "WAG" (Wild Ass Guess) I'm not kidding >that is what the reported said. And I belive he has talking to the >DC police or Park Police. However, now they have a grid of the DC area. >They take areial photos of marches and then place the grid overtop of >the photos and estimate that way. I can't which station it was. Did >anyone else see this? > I think the program was DATELINE (NBC, Tuesdays at 10 pm).
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Newsgroups: misc.headlines Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!think.com!rpi!sarah!cook!psinntp!psinntp!digex!holland From: holland@access.digex.com (Brian Holland) Subject: Re: Crowd size at abortion rights march Message-ID: <1992Apr12.202545.3352@access.digex.com> Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA References: <7APR199208114521@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <_v5td1b@rpi.edu> <17975@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Distribution: dc Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 20:25:45 GMT Lines: 13