The New York Times wildly underreported the number of people who braved a Washington blizzard to attend the annual March for Life on Friday.
But before anybody at Breitbart chalks this up to widespread liberal media bias against the pro-life movement, it is worth noting that The Washington Post got it right by saying the crowd “appeared to be in the thousands.”
The Times blog post on the rally was headlined, “Hundreds Brave Snow at March for Life in Washington.” Without any attribution or qualifiers it told how “hundreds” of activists joined the protest to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Where did that number come from?
The distortion by Washington Bureau scribe Nicholas Fandos seems more a function of laziness than ideology.
His blog post was accompanied by a 54-second video montage of the rally and an Associated Press photo. Both were shot relatively close-up. They lack an expansive view of the march that photos and videos posted by LifeSiteNews.com show of a crowd that seems to number in the thousands.
Fandos, who gave no indication that he attended the rally, probably just assumed from the Times’ own images that just hundreds of people participated.
But he apparently could not be bothered to pick up the phone and double-check his hunch with protest leaders or attendees.
The Timesman did not reply to inquiries.