Whether you rely on the print media, traditional and cable networks, or get your news online largely determines how many people you heard attended Saturday’s Tea Party rally against big government on Washington DC.

Tweeters were all over the one to two-million figure, while more sober estimates ranged up to perhaps 750,000 - and most of those came were higher than reported in the traditional media.

“Today in the blogosphere much is being made of anything approaching a precise  count of the hundreds of thousands of, if not a million Americans who turned up in Washington, DC on Saturday, September 12th to send their government a message,” Dan Riehl blogged in Riehl World View today. “No genuinely precise number can, or will ever be established, let alone agreed upon.”

The Borg’s “Locutisprime” cited a Mailonline article that originally ran with the 2 million count, but apparently revised downward to one million. Remnants of the original headline can still be found in the url … /Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html.

Locutisprime notes:

The British media saw what was going on this weekend in Washington, but not the American media. The American media has ignored it. As they have continued to do since the tea party movement and the awakening of the people first began back in April.

St. Louis Today has been having some fun, at least, in their editorial The incredible shrinking crowd at Obama’s inauguration, by Steve Parker.

The crowd at President Barack Obama’s inauguration topped 2 million — at least that figure was being reported Tuesday morning — but it seems to have been steadily shrinking.

Darleen Click revealed what she saw as live media bias on her Protein Wisdom blog post, remarking, “Obama makes sure he’s not in town.”

I caught a couple of minutes of CNN coverage with reporters in the crowd almost incredulous as they interviewed people who said this was the first time they ever turned out for a political rally and, no, no one paid them to show up.