I’d like the journalists to do a tiny bit of actual work.

Report on what’s happening, and do a rough headcount every now and then, report on the protest growing or waning.

It seems like journalists think they can’t write 50,000 protesters showed up because actually there were 62,490 so it would be disastrous misinformation and it’s better to post a picture, write “There’s a protest.” then forget about it.

Knowing how many are showing up each time matters. Knowing exactly how many doesn’t really matter.