Over at Crooked Timber Brian writes "I hate NBC" because he can't see Australian swimmers.
I think the more pertinent point is not that NBC makes it hard for ex-pats to follow their country's athletes, but that NBC makes it f***ing difficult for anyone to enjoy watching the Olympics!!!
I mean, the total lack of respect for viewers that is apparent in displaying the information that an event that takes 2 minutes will be shown sometime between 12pm and 4pm. Hope you all have extended play VCRs!
They could do everyone a whole lot better by reducing the intervals an event might be shown in to an hour.
The notion that they are spoiling things by not showing them live is a little off; after all there are Olympic events taking place simultaneously, so some events will not be shown live if the coverage is going to be complete.
No, what is maddening is the lack of specificity in advance. Here, I feel that NBC really is trying to reserve the right to drop coverage of actual sports to show medal ceremonies, soft-focus biographies of American athletes, and maddeningly inaccurate portrayals of other countries' athlete development programs and athletes ...
Coming up sometime in the next two weeks ... why I think Bob Costas should stick to baseball ...
Posted by robe0419 at August 13, 2004 07:03 PM | TrackBack