i'm really glad that this march http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/26/politics/26RALL.html (note, registration probably required) for women's rights happened on sunday and that the mainstream media gave it halfway decent coverage. saying that "hundreds of thousands" marched is a huge step for nytimes coverage which mentioned that "thousands" marched when 300,000 plus showed up to protest the war in iraq (that hadn't happened yet) february 15th, 2003.

i'm always amazed that when 500,000 to 1,000,000 people show up to a march that they feel compelled to mention the several hundred "counter demonstrators" at least they didn't show pictures of the counter demonstrators and instead have some rather great photos of the entire mall filled with people. this of course is probably because the "counter demonstrators" were holding photos of aborted fetuses.