Downplayed in the News

Having attended the inauguration yesterday, here are the stories the news did not cover adequately:

• There were over two million people celebrating in DC yesterday. The conservative estimates of under two million did not count the people past the Washington monument, on the parade route, and still stuck on the subway or elsewhere in DC. The biggest story of the day was that these two million strangers left the National Mall without fights and with minimal pushing. This is a testament to the unifying power of Obama.
• When Bush first came out, "the boo heard around the world" was created on the Mall. The news cut the crowd mics because some people might find it "insulting." The people on the mall found Bush's presence insulting.
• There was more than the one "O bam a" chant heard on TV. I recall at least three very large ones which the two million people on the mall yelled. The media feared this was too reminiscent of Germany in the last century: was it?