Hot take: Trump's rally crowd sizes are still being downplayed by the media

I was watching a clip from his 2020 rally in Tulsa and realized they claimed 6,200 people showed up. But I counted the empty seats myself based on the venue layout and it had to be closer to 10,000. Why does it take me three hours of staring at a screen to figure out what reporters should have caught in five minutes? Has anyone else done the math on one of his events and found a similar gap?

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margaretw4116d ago

You know that Tulsa rally was a perfect example, I remember the venue holds 19,000 and they blocked off the upper deck, so even if you take their number it was about a third full. But what I really want to know is, did you compare the live shots of the crowd from the back of the room to what they showed on the news? Because I noticed that night every camera angle was from the front row looking up at the stage, which makes any group look bigger than it actually is. How do they get away with that kind of framing without anyone calling it out?

stone.jesse16d ago

Did anyone else catch how they zoomed in TIGHT on the first few rows? That's the oldest trick in the book, man.