So, How Much Sanity Was There in D.C. Yesterday? (Updated)
The “vast majority”? Proof please. All I’ve ever seen are mentions like “NBC News estimated the crowd at 300,000″ – not exactly a reliance – usually right along with mentions of Glenn Beck’s/Micehlle Bachman’s etc. “It was eleventy billion!” estimate and the Airphotoslive/CBS News estimate. That’s because reputable news organizations (not just blogs) tended to point out that estimates varied.
“Nobody’s ever heard of it”? You mean you’ve never heard of it. As they’ve been working with news organizations like CBS, CNN, and the Washington Post, not to mention corporations like Verizon, AT&T, and Forbes who contract for the aerial image services, I’d say the people who work in the field know about them.
http://airphotoslive.com/clients.html
Add to that the fact that they provide crowd information to first responders and emergency medical personnel at these rallies, I’m pretty sure that their services are respected.
http://photosynth.net/userProfilePage.aspx?user=curtw&content=Replies
They’ve explained their methodology many times over. No reputable source disputes that they use the methodology they say they use. If you want to disagree, maybe try picking a more rational reason than you don’t like the example they provided in a news article.
As to your last claim re the Stewart rally, I’ll repeat what I posted above: please provide estimates given formally by reputable news sources, based on scientific methodology, that show numbers that are half of those given by Airphotoslive. Be specific.
