Hype?
Surely not!
In Phoenix, the local media claim that "400,000 come out to line the streets for the Fiesta Bowl Parade".
The Parade route is less than 2 miles long, my rough calculations (estimating that each person takes up 2 feet of kerb space), would mean that the crowd would be 37 rows deep on both sides of the street for the entire parade length.
In fact, the crowd is very patchy, in places it is 5 rows deep, in others it is a single line with gaps in between the spectators. There is one area with temporary bleechers, but they only hold 3 - 4000 people, the true attendance is probably 30,000 - 40,000 people, tops, but no mattter, the media wouldn't let a simple little thing like logic, common sense, or facts get in the way of a good piece of hype.
Nor do the media explain how the center of Phoenix, with NO appreciable public transportation or parking facilities, can miraculously accomodate the equivalent of FIVE Superbowl crowds, all at the same time, without the place being brought to a total standstill.
Yet nobody questions it... ( except me)
Now stop that!You aren`t supposed to think.
Now, let me tell you about the 17.624 million homeless and the 12 million uninsured.