They were claiming “a billion viewers in 200 countries”. Turns out they had 28.3 million in the US, and of course it was the middle of the night in Europe, Asia and Australia. Ya think they were all glued to the TV at 3.00 AM to watch John Stewart?
I doubt if the total audience was even double the US audience so you could figure around 57 million actually watched. Thats less than 6% of what they claimed.
Al Gore did the same thing with Live Earth - claimed TWO BILLION participated when less than 40 Million did.
The Super Bowl claimed that 900 Million would watch this year -98 Million actually did.
The Rose Bowl Parade claims an attendance of 1 million every year- you can’t fit that many people along the parade route, and if you did they would be shoulder to shoulder 30 rows deep along both sides of the entire route. Real attendance figures are I don’t know the real figure but I bet it is south of 100,000.
The Fiesta Bowl Parade in Phoenix claims 400,000 attendees, the actual attendance last year was between 10,000 - 15,000
These organisations all make their outlandish claims because they think they can’t be challenged. They are just a bunch of liars, and verifying the attendance is a lot easier than they might think, especially when the claims are so absurd.
WOW if we use hollyweird math how many hits does that make for FR?!
C’mon. Next thing you’ll tell me is that there weren’t 1 million at the Million Man March.