Here they come (virtually)

Hypervigilant Neighbor:  An invading army is heading towards our town!   It is at least 100,000 people. I saw it on the cable TV news channel!

Nonplussed Neighbor:  What exactly did you see? 

HN:  A video of a guy walking this way.  He looked like a bad dude.  He is far away but slowly getting closer!  

NN:  Where do you get the 100,000 number from? Sounds like just one guy.

HN:  Yes, but the cable TV news channel played the video of him 100,000 times. That makes 100,000 guys!