I Am Less Confused

In my earlier article I wondered why I heard such loud laughter on the radio in response to Kerry's "Tony Soprano" joke, but then heard nothing when I watched this joke again on TV.

Well I wasn't imagining things, I re-watched the TV broadcast, and could not hear the laughter. So I cranked the volume way up, and that time I could in fact hear some barely audible laughter. Yet I remember quite vividly the loud laughter I heard on the radio.

So I am guessing what happened is that the audience was miked, but most broadcasters turned the audience mike off during most of the debate. For some reason the ABC radio feed I was listening to didn't.

At the end of the debate, the question on what the candidates learned from the women in their lives, the audience can be heard again loud and clear. I suppose the audience mikes were turned on again in anticipation of the audience's reaction at the end.