500,000 people marched in central London on 28th March against racism and the far right in a protest organised by the Together Alliance. It was likely the biggest ever protest in the UK against racism. While the police who apparently have resumed estimating march numbers after a break claimed 50,000 but the Met Police’s own Twitter account which posts time stamped pictures of protests and locations tells a rather different story.
When it comes to media coverage, obviously social media was an important source of news and pictures. The mainstream media has a tradition of not reporting weekend protests unless they are organised by Stephen Yaxley Lennon of course. The Guardian was an exception. It covered the build up to the march and had live reporting on its website on Saturday. While the print edition of the paper may not sell that many these days its website is one of the most visited sources for news.
The BBC did report the march, which may surprise some, as the report is on the London news section of the news website. The Together Alliance protest was a national march but somehow the BBC thought it was only local London news. One senses some dodgy editorial decisions there. The report itself is OKish.
The BBC did report, rightly, on its front page, the huge No Kings protests across the US on 28th March. Again this will have been an editorial judgement. The BBC is one of the most visited news sites in the US
The Daily Mirror did carry a report featuring the 500,000 figure prominently. I havent (yet) scrutinised all the right-wing media but neither the Sunday Telegraph or Sunday Times appear to have reported it. Sensing perhaps that dissing a huge march against racism wasnt really going to work they chose instead to ignore it.
The good news it that with such a big march those who were there and there friends and colleagues who perhaps couldnt make it on the day can tell people directly in workplaces, communities, clubs, pubs and cafes what took place and why its important to build on it.
Thousands gather for anti far-right march in London – BBC News
Kmflett's Blog 
When we got to Trafalgar Square, or truthfully, to the Fullers pub on the corner of the square, I returned from the bar to find Jeanette chatting to a couple of Irish lads. Between them they had come up with a figure of approximately 500,000. It took us 4 hours to march from Park Lane to the finish, nearly two hours of which was spent stationary waiting for another branch of the march to merge with the main contingent. I’m personally not very good at estimating numbers at this sort of event, but it was considerably larger than the largest pro-Palestinian marches recently and Jeanette reckoned the only demo she had ever been on that was larger was the stop The Iraq War march. At 445, machers were still arriving at the finish. The police estimate was a crock of shit, which they sort of admitted themselves by a admitting ‘It was difficult to judge the number due to the widespread nature of the crowd’. This is patent bollocks as there were police helicopters constantly above and they definitely have the surveillance equipment and software to make a precise count.