Friday, August 29, 2008

38 Million+

tuned into Obama's acceptance speech, reports say. What can we make of that? Is that a large or small number? Does it tell us anything about what effects it may have upon voters? Which matters more, given the current media environment -- the event itself, or the narrative the media (in all their various forms) make of it?

1 comment:

Matt Williams said...

I'm not going to speculate about the reasons behind that number. However, the media, http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92S3HOG1&show_article=1, among others, have been stressing the enormity of that amount by placing it in relation to other large events in recent history.

To kind of distill the media narrative - it was really big.