Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Where do people get the idea that the Oscars have 1 billion viewers? How can they not instantly see that's wrong 1 ? I'd elaborate, but the New Yorker already did.
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Answer: innumeracy and parochialism. Most people don't have any idea of what the US or world populations are, and that maybe, just maybe, an American event hosted in America by Americans presenting awards to American movie-markers might not be of interest to non-Americans.