Why isn't HBO doing good Job promoting Spike Lee's Katrina?

[AlamoDemoc]

We have yet to hear any media discussion of it, and no media promotion of it, and it is not in the open, per se, outside of HBO watchers. Why?

[William769]

1. I never see any HBO Advertisements outside of HBO.

[babylonsister]

2. It's not HBO's fault but the fault of the media whores. I've seen

it written and discussed about in the papers, but I guess the whores don't want to really emphasize dimson's many failings.

[acmavm]

3. Like F9/11, it's not getting the attention that it deserves because the

powers that be would rather it not be seen by the majority of the people. They have, if you believe the polls, about 1/3 of the population fooled. They want to keep it that way.

The movement to see this work will grow, just like Michael Moore's masterpiece on the bush** administration.

[CollegeDUer]

4. Add to that list: American Blackout, Welcome to Missle Street,

In This World, and many, many more great indy films that could change the world.

[AlamoDemoc]

5. We have seen many small tragedies in america focused in the

movies and in print...yet we have Katrina (Thousand Three Hundred Dead)and no one is paying attention....odd if you think of it!

[acmavm]

13. Reality is not exactly the American public's main interest anymore.

They have, and why I do not understand, some kind of really f**ked up idea that life is Big Brother, Survivor, or So You Want to be A Rock Star. Whatever cheesy fake reality show they can focus on and do their very best to ignore the very real danger that surrounds them.

And I don't think I exaggerate when I use the word 'danger'. Someone has to die in their wars. Someone has to go without medicine or medical treatment so that we can use the money for those wars.

Somebodies kids, someone who's not rolling in bucks like the people who are now feeding off the public trough, will have to be malnourished. Somebodies kids have to do without dental care. Will have to go hungry, and more and more possible, they may have to go homeless. All of these circumstances (all of them unnecessary) will shorten the expected life span of these kids. That is, if they're not dying overseas somewhere in a country that has lots of oil or minerals under the ground.

And hell, this corrupt government is doing their best to cull the herd of the elderly and the infirm. We're supposed to be trading in a 'world wide' economy but those who rely the most on medication are are prohibited, BY LAW, from getting their meds outside this country. They will confiscate the meds if they come in from Canada. To hell with whether or not doing without the medication is worse than any problems with the meds. (The ironic thing is that there is nothing wrong with the meds, its the same shit you get here. The truth is the compassionate Christians running this country would rather see you dead than be able to get cheap meds.) In the meantime the pharmaceutical companies are making damn good and sure that the medications these people need are three, four times the cost in this country.

Truth be told, things are just so damn bad that this administration makes a damn banana republic government look honest. And the American people are too lazy, to dumb, too numb, too scared, to intoxicated with their games and SUVs, too wrapped up in their artificial entertainments and artificial lives to even protest. They don't want to believe that they're sacrificing their kids, their grandkids, to a bunch of criminal who's front man is the grandson of one of Adolph Hitler's financiers. We've come full circle.

[Jacobin]

6. I can't find it on the HBO website

I looked for it on my cable guide and can't find it.

Is it blacked out in some parts of the country? (I'm in South Louisiana)

:argh:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

8. HBO website

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/whentheleveesbroke/index.html

[Jacobin]

12. Thank you very much

Looks like next week. I must have missed the earlier showing.

:hi:

[AlamoDemoc]

16. You are one 100% correct on your analysis...and this, you wore;

"Truth be told, things are just so damn bad that this administration makes a damn banana republic government look honest. And the American people are too lazy, too dumb, too numb, too scared, to intoxicated with their games and SUVs, too wrapped up in their artificial entertainments and artificial lives to even protest."

WOW!


on edit: my reply was toward acmavm post#13...I think DU is bit upside down tonight

[MikeyJones]

7. Maybe because the people who own HBO are the corporate golf buddies.......

of Cheney and company?

[gatorboy]

10. If they were buddies,

Why broadcast it at all? :shrug:

[MikeyJones]

20. Ratings equal cash

Cash equals what drives these greedy fuckers in the first place.

[babylonsister]

11. Fer cryin' out loud. So you're suggesting HBO doesn't want

this documentary to be seen? :eyes:

[NYCGirl]

21. Then why did they back the project? Your reasoning is a bit off. NT

[niallmac]

9. NPR had a good piece on the making of Spikes Katrina epic.n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Well, maybe...

they figure everybody who's got HBO is going to watch it, and everybody who doesn't isn't.

:shrug:

It seems to me they sort of do a word-of-mouth thing. Let the HBO viewers talk about it for awhile, and then use it to advertise for subscriptions to the whole network.

They can't just sell one show, although they'll use shows to sell the whole kit-and-kaboodle. Look at the sopranos in your junk mail, for instance.

[SoFlaJet]

15. Because it's all Jon Benet all the time

again-the disconnect from what's happening on the street to what they're TELLING us is happening.

[dsc]

17. HBO never promotes these movies other than on HBO

I am unsure why, though my guess is that they think no one signs up just for those movies. Remember that unlike regular channels it isn't ratings HBO wants, its paying customers. Their advertising shows them to believe that the series gets them the subscribers.

[AlamoDemoc]

18. I do not subscribe to HBO

yet I recall the fanfare HBO made with their latest series of "Rome".
The Rome series was in the entire place of media coverage, including daily talk radio and regular FM radio. I think HBO telemarketers have the means to promote any series they would want to promote.

[dsc]

19. Rome was a miniseries lasting for two months

actually I think part of three. In order to see Rome a person would have to subscribe for three months. I think that is what they are thinking of. Honestly I think they blew it with this strategy. One of the many reasons I do subscribe is that they consistently make great films. The Laramie Project, Something the Lord Hath Made, Spike Lee's film, the FDR film, Conspiracy, and many more are all great films. Frankly the series and these films are why I subscribe. The movies from Hollywood are a very small reason for me.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

22. Because It's All One Big Rove Conspiracy I Tell Ya!

[orpupilofnature57]

24. Thank God , for guy's like Bill Maher !

[orpupilofnature57]

23. It's not MSM nor is " Real Time " or " K Street " or " Undercover America"

Remember when H.B.O was the gratuitous Tv and journalism had integrity, and information?