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Oh look, there's a story about a march of thousands on the BBC News page dated 16 April.
It may be dated the 16th but it wasn't on the site during the day on the 16th, they added it some 7 or so hours after the event. And when it first appeared it (I think) said "Hundreds rally..."
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That IBTimes piece says it went up at 16:30. Okay, it's not live rolling coverage, but it's still coverage. You can't send camera crews to everything just on the off chance.
Hundreds has been revised to thousands - so clearly they realised they'd underestimated the size.
If you're a single journalist on the ground, how do you gauge the size of a large crowd infallibly? Any tips?
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Edit as you posted as I was posting
That story went out that afternoon. You're complaining that they didn't interrupt the TV scheduling with live footage from the protest? or that the journalist who wrote the web story didn't file their copy quickly enough?