News reports often vary when estimating crowd sizes, but rarely as widely as reporting on the rally May 23 of Russian speakers against the education reform that would phase out Russian language instruction at about 150 high schools in Latvia. Sometimes it depends on what time the reporter arrives at the protest or where he or she is standing, but what occured in the media on May 23 goes beyond any definition of "margin of error."Some of the estimates included:LETA (formerly the state-owned news agency, which has been privatized) -3,000LNT (commercial television channel) -3,000Diena (The nat...
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