Obviously, event organizers are always going to tend to overstate attendance, and trying to estimate crowd size from photographs is a losing game: someone will always accuse the photographer of framing the picture to make the audience seem larger or smaller.
Brian Abel of KSHB in Kansas City, Mo., was willing to put his professional reputation on the line Thursday after his photos from Rev. Hillary Clinton’s sermon at the National Baptist Convention suggested that not everyone was in the mood for church on a Thursday afternoon.
LOTS of empty seats w/ half hour before @HillaryClinton expected to speak at National Baptist Convention here in KC pic.twitter.com/uVF47GGJze
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016
Wow, that’s a lot of chairs. Still, give it a half-hour.
Convention hall turned out lights in un-occupied part of hall for @HillaryClinton speech, now partitioning it off pic.twitter.com/O5Az8EfiRD
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016
This reporter is obviously in the tank for Donald Trump. How much is he paying you to report these lies, Brian? Why don’t you post pictures of the crowd during her speech?
Here are the requested "during speech" pics of KC convention hall pic.twitter.com/ZRGOm77xnO
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016
OK then.
@41ActionNews these pics face away from majority of the crowd that was in front of the press stand…. pic.twitter.com/aOVb07NuaG
— mikayla dreyer (@mikayladreyer) September 8, 2016
Now that’s what we were saying about framing a photo. “Hi, we’re from the New York Times … can we have permission to publish your photo on the front page tomorrow?”
Front of press constituted 10 rows. 14 seats per section, 6 sections. Less than 1,000 of the >5k setup https://t.co/C6BcyCIl9F
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016
Even Rev. Hillary has trouble getting masses in pews these days; anyone remember this July sermon in Cleveland?
In Ohio @HillaryClinton hits @realDonaldTrump on outsourcing bankruptcies & promises to tackle systemic racism pic.twitter.com/cckJuvgFjf
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 31, 2016
And we have the attendance figures, so just forget about those deceptive photos. Drum roll please …
Just in: attendance for @HillaryClinton speech in KC is roughly 3k
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 9, 2016
Can we get a hallelujah? A hearty golf-clap? Some loud crickets?
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Hill-elujah! Oh lawdy: Hillary gets her praise on at National Baptist Convention https://t.co/onjyE7HtuB
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 8, 2016
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