I think I know the answer

In lieu of this detail from the Tablet, do you suppose the BBC will retract their errors in reporting?

"What the Pope and his entourage actually found is well reflected in the figures confirmed by the Metropolitan Police after Saturday’s events in London. The enthusiastic crowds who lined the streets to watch him pass on his way down the flag-lined Mall grew to 200,000 while there were 6,000 on the anti-papal march to Downing Street, although the organisers claimed that it was several times that figure [so did the BBc]. Even those parts of the national media that had been most critical of the visit beforehand, had changed their tune by the time he left."

We know what tune the BBC sings. When will they learn to sight-read?