The 27 January 2007 Washington peace rally

Do most journalists not take mathematics in school?

Tens of thousands of protesters crowded Washington on Saturday to demand Congress cut off funds for the Iraq war and stop troop increases ordered by President George W. Bush.

So we check in with the organizers and what do they have to say?

Organizers of the umbrella group United for Peace and Justice said the rally drew 500,000 protesters.

Uh, "tens of thousands" would be 20-30-50 thousand. Five hundred thousand would be "hundreds of thousands".

To be fair, I chose to use AFP as an example, but other wire services are using the same "tens of thousands" phrase.

Will post a photo later if I find a good one.

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Update: John in DC over at AMERICAblog was at the rally cum peace march and he estimates the crowd at about 50,000. He also has pix.

I still say the article should have made it clear they mentioned "tens of thousands", which is probably correct, based upon their estimate of crowd size.