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Obama's Speech: Technical Difficulties

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ssetta

Obama just gave a speech at Northeastern today, and something really weird happened! First, I waited in line to see him speak, but then it became clear that I wasn't going to get in. But they had a giant TV screen set up in the Student center, so there I went. When I got there, around 2:00 or so, they had on some hockey game of some teams that I had never heard of. I didn't know what time Obama was going to speak, and I heard it wasn't gonna be until 3:00. So I left and then came back, and when I got back, they had on...a Vacuum Cleaner Infomercial!! When I saw that, I was like "What the...?" We came all the way here to watch THAT?? And then they kept on flipping through all the channels, because it looked like they couldn't find the right channel. They finally got to something with the local Boston mayor, and everyone cheered! Though it might not have been the right thing, so they changed it again, and people groaned. They went back to the vacuum cleaner infomercial, and people BOOED!! After hours and hours of flipping and flipping, they simply made an announcement that they had technical difficulties, and so they sent us somewhere else.

So...what exactly does this prove? Has this ever happened anywhere else when they tried to do this? Why do you think all this happened?
 
Conspiracy. It was conspiracy, I tell you.
 
You mean you think they planned this on purpose? See, all students at Northeastern (myself included) got an e-mail saying that there would be a TV set up in the Curry Student Center so that people could watch Obama. It was very inviting. I think most people who were there were hoping for a chance to see Obama speak LIVE. But I think only like 100 or so people got in. I honestly don't think this was done on purpose. Why do you think it was?
 
Your first mistake was waiting in line to hear anything that anyone in Washington has to say. A total waste of time.
 
They had the line because they were hoping they would get to see Obama in person. You're saying that waiting in line was a mistake? In a way, I do agree. But the main reason why I was so upset is because we ended up watching it on Fox News. I felt like I made a trip to see and hear something that I could have simply watched on my own TV with no problems. I know that some movie theaters do things like this on Election Night, Inauguration Day, and even for the Super Bowl. It is beyond my comprehension why they would set up a giant TV in a public place for people to watch something...especially when people can just watch it at home.
 
ssetta said:
Obama just gave a speech at Northeastern today... they had a giant TV screen set up in the Student center... they had on some hockey game of some teams that I had never heard of... when I got back, they had on...a Vacuum Cleaner Infomercial... they kept on flipping through all the channels, because it looked like they couldn't find the right channel. They finally got to something with the local Boston mayor, and everyone cheered! Though it might not have been the right thing, so they changed it again, and people groaned. They went back to the vacuum cleaner infomercial, and people BOOED!! After hours and hours of flipping and flipping, they simply made an announcement that they had technical difficulties, and so they sent us somewhere else...
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Gee, with Obama in the house, one would think there would be "change" for the better. ;)
 
Was the speech on the national cable channels? It might have just been a closed-circuit thing, and somebody forgot to hook up a camera to that big tv, or if it was on a local tv's digital subchannel then they might have not known how to hook it up.
 
It aired on MSNBC, at the very least, and I think on CNN and FNC as well. So I think it was just a case of someone not knowing what channel to tune the set to.
 
I think it's possible that it WAS supposed to be closed-circuit originally, but they had problems with that, so they just put on a national cable channel. But that sort of defeats the purpose of going there to watch it, since I could have just watched it at home.
 
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