...Or does this AP headline seem wrongheaded? Thousands March Against Syria in Beirut. Especially when in the body of the article you learn the following:
Monday's protest easily surpassed a pro-government rally of hundreds of thousands of people last week by the Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah. That show of strength forced the opposition to try to regain its momentum.
While there were no official estimates of the size of the crowd, Lebanon's leading LBC TV station and some police officers estimated it at about 1 million people. The officers refused to speak publicly because it was an opposition rally. An Associated Press estimate by reporters on the scene put the number at much higher than the approximately 500,000 who attended the March 8 pro-Syrian rally.
This really is the factual basis for the headline "Thousands March Against Syria In Beirut"?
I can't wait for baseball season to begin so we can all see the AP headline "Dozens Attend Red Sox Opener."
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