On March 10th, the Washington Post ’s Nicole Norfleet wrote a feature story entitled “Thousands rally to support health-care reform in downtown Washington.” It’s a pretty straight piece. It provides quotes from activists calling for passage of the health care legislation, and a brief rebuttal with the insurance industry’s perspective. Notably, the picture accompanying the story parrots the rally’s organizers estimates of the crowd—5,000—and in the second to last paragraph, Norfleet reports that:

No one was arrested during Tuesday’s demonstration, Elliot said. But there was a minor skirmish between police and protesters when

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