Obama Attracts a Multitude; Media Mostly Silent

Barak Obama attracted 75,000 people to a campaign event in Portland, OR, and the big media were mainly quiet about it.

The New York Times described the crowd as a multitude. When is the last time a multitude came out to see a politician in America? A pope, maybe. Or U2. But not a politician.

What was odd is that other major US dailies failed to treat a turnout the size of a small city at a political rally as anything remarkable, or particularly newsworthy.

The LA Times mentioned it, four paragraphs into a story about Obama's attacks against John McCain on social security, lobbyists and foreign policy.

It was hard to find any reference to the Portland multitude on the Washington Post's site, which also gave greater prominence to the McCain/lobbyist story.

Is anyone really surprised by the lack of coverage?