MSNBC to Air Obama Inauguration in Movie Theaters

[red states rule]

As if Obama 24/7 were not enough, we now have this

I bet Chris has a hell of thrill up his leg now. I can Chris charging the stage and try to hump Obama's le



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Obama inauguration to air in theaters

NEW YORK -- President-elect Barack Obama is on his way to the big screen, thanks to a deal between MSNBC and Screenvision that will put the news channel's inaugural coverage in 27 theaters around the country.

Free tickets are being handed out via MSNBC.com to see the inauguration and parade from 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ET at the 27 theaters run by 11 exhibitor partners in 21 markets. Midday Tuesday isn't necessarily a big movie time, so it helps to fill the theater -- and boost popcorn and soda sales -- at a time when it's not usually busy.

That means that Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews and other MSNBC and NBC personalities will play the big movie screen in addition to the usual MSNBC cable and satellite stream. MSNBC won't be in high-definition until the second quarter, but both the channel and Screenvision say the quality will still be high.

"It'll look great," MSNBC president Phil Griffin said. "We're thrilled about it."

Screenvision was approached by MSNBC last year about carrying the coverage in some of the same theaters that take Screenvision's preroll video, executive vp exhibitor relations Darryl Schaffer said. Since August 2007, Screenvision has had an alternative programming division that has exhibited New York Mets baseball games, operas and other events live via movie theaters. Schaffer said that Screenvision had the capability to do as many as 200 locations, though MSNBC was looking for a smaller event than that.

For MSNBC, it's a chance to continue the momentum that vaulted it into the fastest-growing channel in all of cable in 2008. That's the strategy, and Griffin said Monday afternoon to expect more in 2009 to build MSNBC's brand.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i64ab5b30222e725ff274c4907e5fa45b

[stephanie]

this is starting to look like North Korea, Cuba, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq..

it's creepy

[red states rule]

this is starting to look like North Korea, Cuba, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq..

it's creepy

Steph, if nobody shows up to watch, will Chris Matthews and MSNBC report it?

[stephanie]

Steph, if nobody shows up to watch, will Chris Matthews and MSNBC report it?

they'd probably all be in tears, and all those tingles would of been for nothing.:coffee:

[red states rule]

they'd probably all be in tears, and all those tingles would of been for nothing.:coffee:

And as Chris "reports" from DC on Jan 20, the bottom of the screen will flash

"You will love and admire Pres Obama"

[DannyR]

it's creepy

I watched Bush's state of the union address in a theater one year. Nothing creepy about it. More theaters now have digital projectors and can broadcast from remote signals.

This is certainly nothing compared to the huge propaganda films of the 1940's. Nobody is forcing you to watch.

[red states rule]

it's creepy

I watched Bush's state of the union address in a theater one year. Nothing creepy about it. More theaters now have digital projectors and can broadcast from remote signals.

This is certainly nothing compared to the huge propaganda films of the 1940's. Nobody is forcing you to watch.

With the 24/7 All Obama All The Time - how can you not watch?

To the liberal media, this is the Second Coming

[DannyR]

To the liberal media, this is the Second Coming

Its a historic event. First black president. (suck it up women, you've been shafted!)

They are within their rights to promote it fully. But I think you're naive if you think the honeymoon will last overly long. TV requires ratings to make a profit. Ratings will only come with controversy. Obama will either supply that, or they will look elsewhere for news.

[red states rule]

To the liberal media, this is the Second Coming

Its a historic event. First black president. (suck it up women, you've been shafted!)

They are within their rights to promote it fully. But I think you're naive if you think the honeymoon will last overly long. TV requires ratings to make a profit. Ratings will only come with controversy. Obama will either supply that, or they will look elsewhere for news.

Here are the double standards of the liberal medias coverage of Inauguration's



It would be a mistake to think reporters are always so worshipful of new presidents. While most presidents do start with a media honeymoon, a review of the past 20 years finds reporters are more celebratory when Democrats are taking over the White House, while coverage of GOP inaugurals has included a fair number of anti-conservative stinkbombs:

■ 1989. TV reporters chose to salute the incoming President George Bush by slamming the more conservative Ronald Reagan. ABC’s Richard Threlkeld went to Overtown, a riot-scarred area of Miami, for Inauguration Day: “After eight years of what many saw as the Reagan administration’s benign neglect of the poor and studied indifference to civil rights, a lot of those who lived through this week in Overtown seemed to think the best thing about George Bush is that he is not Ronald Reagan,” Threlkeld claimed on the January 20, 1989 World News Tonight. “There is an Overtown in every big city in America — pockets of misery made even meaner and more desperate the past eight years.”

On NBC, anchor Bryant Gumbel praised Bush’s speech as signaling “a new activism, a new engagement in the lives of others, a yearning for greater tolerance....Basically a rejection of everything that the Reagan years had been about.”

■ 1993. Bill Clinton’s arrival was touted with the same fervor now bestowed on Obama. The New York Times asked in a January 3, 1993 headline: “Clinton as National Idol: Can the Honeymoon Last?” Newsweek magazine ran TV ads touting its commemorative edition “that’s sure to be a collector’s item because it covers the most important inauguration of our lifetime.”

Wall Street Journal reporter Jill Abramson — now managing editor of news at the New York Times — confessed: “It’s an exciting time to be in Washington....People are excited. They’re happy about change....I think you’re going to see crowds for these inaugural events the likes of which we haven’t seen in Washington ever.”

■ 1997. Clinton’s second inaugural inspired just as much hero-worship. Howard Rosenberg reviewed Clinton’s speech for the Los Angeles Times: “His sturdy jaw precedes him. He smiles from sea to shining sea. Is this President a candidate for Mt. Rushmore or what?...In fact, when it comes to influencing the public, a single medley of expressions from Clinton may be worth much more, to much of America, than every ugly accusation Paula Jones can muster.”

■ 2001. After the long recount, reporters applied an asterisk to Bush’s first inaugural. NBC’s Maria Shriver emphasized “millions of people who felt disenfranchised by this election, who don’t feel that he’s their President yet.” On ABC, George Stephanopoulos warned Bush to avoid conservative policies: “With a 50-50 Senate and a tiny margin in the House, and a majority in the country who actually voted against President Bush, he’ll be able to fulfill that central promise of unifying the country only if he’s willing to compromise.”

■ 2005. Bush’s second inaugural was met with far more hostility, with reporters attacking the $40 million price tag as obscene. “In a time of war and natural disaster, is it time for a lavish celebration?” ABC’s Terry Moran doubted. The AP’s Will Lester calculated that the money spent on Bush’s inaugural could vaccinate “22 million children in regions devastated by the tsunami....Do we need to spend this money on what seems so extravagant?” (Obama’s inaugural committee will spend $45 million, but the total price tag could exceed $150 million.)

The day before Bush’s 2005 swearing-in, ABC’s Web site pleaded for tips of “any military funerals for Iraq war casualties scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 20.” Sure enough, then-ABC anchor Peter Jennings got his wish to report how “just about the time the president was speaking, there was a funeral for a young Marine reservist: 21-year-old Matthew Holloway was killed in Iraq last week by a roadside bomb.”

[Kathianne]

If it were initiated by the theaters, ok. The fact that there seems to be a MSNBC connection, creepy. When one considers how Obama team cleared out dissenting news sources, well makings of a state network.

[DannyR]

As if "conservative media" doesn't treat Obama's presidency differently than they did Bush's.

So what if "liberal media" likes Obama more than Bush or Reagan. Thats why we have both conservative and liberal media. Nobody is forcing you to watch CNN. Thats why you have FoxNews. Fox has more viewers than CNN, so I don't see how anyone can even argue there is only one side of the coverage anymore. I don't buy any arguments that the "media" speaks with one voice. I hear plenty of arguments from both sides, depending on the channel or TV vs Radio. (as if you can even find a "liberal" radio program in most cities)

[red states rule]

If it were initiated by the theaters, ok. The fact that there seems to be a MSNBC connection, creepy. When one considers how Obama team cleared out dissenting news sources, well makings of a state network.

To bad I will miss Obama Coronation.

I have other more important things to do that day: clean my cats' litter box, strip the wallpaper off the bathroom wall, and get a root canal
:cool:

[stephanie]

To bad I will miss Obama Coronation.

I have other more important things to do that day: clean my cats' litter box, strip the wallpaper off the bathroom wall, and get a root canal
:cool:

I've seen all I care to see the last two yrs. I will not even watch a news channel anymore because of it..it was starting to give me a toothache, too much sweets, it was making want to go a dentist..

[red states rule]

I've seen all I care to see the last two yrs. I will not even watch a news channel anymore because of it..it was starting to give me a toothache, too much sweets, it was making want to go a dentist..

Not only MSNBC, all the nets will be drooling over Lord Obama

The liberal media will have a collective orgasism over and over on Tuesday

[stephanie]

Not only MSNBC, all the nets will be drooling over Lord Obama

The liberal media will have a collective orgasism over and over on Tuesday

watching them talk about him, it looked like they were having mini organisms... I think Chrissy Matthews was having the biggest one in his entire life..

[red states rule]

watching them talk about him, it looked like they were having mini organisms... I think Chrissy Matthews was having the biggest one in his entire life..


You mean like this Steph?

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[DannyR]

I'll skip it myself. Inaugurations are generally pretty boring affairs. Actually had one president die from one.

[stephanie]

You mean like this Steph?

http://www.strangepolitics.com/images/content/135727.jpg

from now on when I see Chrissy talk about him, I will think of that picture..:laugh2:

[red states rule]

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