A media "staging area" in the parking lot in front of a Target store in the Watertown Mall was clogged with hundreds of reporters and dozens of satellite trucks; the roads around it were blocked off to traffic.
"When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage so my role models were male basketball and male American football players," she explained.
Today, we no longer have to rely on travelers spreading information like a game of telephone through roadside diners along Route 66. Nowadays the whole world is a social media stage, where everyone can step up to the mic and say hello and someone might listen.
Though the end of "don't ask, don't tell" registered as a somewhat subdued event at the Pentagon, it also offered some soldiers a closely watched media stage for coming out.
When we meet, Wood, who is Plaid's first female leader, is riding high from her success at the televised debate, which saw her party catapulted on to a UK-wide media stage for arguably the first time since its founders, Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and DJ Williams, were tried at the Old Bailey for setting fire to an RAF bombing school at Penyberth in 1936.
This would be a great thing for the cinema at large; it would also be a great thing for the virtual media stage, because Gray himself is a superb and funny speaker, or, dare I say, performer.
On a far more ambitious scale there is Media Stage - winner of a 2006 Bett award and currently falling in price to suit school budgets.
Normally by this point in Super Bowl week, the players have succeeded in turning their big media stage into a big nap.
Opinions differed, but most agreed on at least one thing: Though Mr. Kerry might have won several states on Tuesday, and more delegates, he must now share a greater portion of the national media stage with someone else.
The faces of the missing, of people who vanished completely, will pass one last time across the media stage.
