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American exceptionschism seems to now translate into one national TV station monopolizing all coverage, none of the coverage is live, live coverage is banned by some kind of national internet switch being thrown to OFF, they censor what they please, the announcers are uninformed, they do not even carry the opening ceremonies live!
Then you wonder why so many Americans are not into The Games, why some did not even know it started.....
In the meantime, while the monopoly TV station is not covering their monopolized event, the other TV stations are ginning up the fear angle at every opportunity, elevating a drunken man armed with a airplane peanut snack into an international terror alert, toothpaste into fear.....
Idiot America, enslaved by its exceptional Media Cartel.
P.S. CBC Canada coverage, French and English have different event coverage, always live first and the repeat on tape, is freaking AWESOME. Sochi is a beautiful city.
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Edit added: Apparently some of the coverage IS live, if you can find it on the national NBC channel and not NBC Sports, the cable channel, I would like to know.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)I was able to watch for about 45 seconds and then a message came up saying that I was in an area that that could not watch. I guess that explains it.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)badtoworse
(5,957 posts)Live coverage would mean it's being broadcast in the early morning hours and very few people would be watching. Besides that, I work and I'd like to watch in the evening when I'm home.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)With having it produced as a program they can insert station break to their convience.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)at this very moment. LIVE
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)It's a cable station, but it IS available.
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)The UK during the London Games had 'Brand Police' who enforced Olympic Product sales. Others could not say 'Olympic' or 'London 2010' nor use those rings that did not function well in Sochi.
"Fans in the crowd won't be allowed to upload snippets of the day's action to YouTube or even, potentially, to post their snaps from inside the Olympic Village on Facebook. And a crack team of branding "police", the Games organisers Locog have acknowledged, will be checking every bathroom in every Olympic venue with the power to remove or tape over manufacturers' logos even on soap dispensers, wash basins and toilets."
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/apr/13/olympics-2012-branding-police-sponsors
Of course I am boycotting because they'd not welcome my sort of person there.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)alp227
(32,075 posts)Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)Make the airing of the games live happen at such odd times here viewers would be hard to come by at times
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)So yeah. What happens there at noon is midnight here, not exactly prime time.
FarCenter
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)bearing live witness to the best athletes in the world and the spirit that makes them the best is kindda depressing, sir/madame.
Igel
(35,387 posts)The same kind of thing where
parents are more concerned with their kids' getting As than getting educated,
school administrators (district through federal) are more concerned with test scores than learning, and
politicians are more concerned with American kids' test score ranking.
We confuse what the evaluator says with the participants' performance, judgment with reality. We confuse form with substance. (Unless, of course, reality and substance directly affect us.)
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)IMLHO, all the Olympics are is:
An excuse for a certain class of boosters in a different city, in a different country, every two years to puff out their collective chest and show off how great is their city and / or country.
To spend billions of dollars to bring people to that city, so they can be sold a bunch of crap, and charge wildly inflated prices for services.
To tax the hell out of, and inconvenience the life of the people who live in that city, so some in said city can make boatloads of money.
So the IOC can make boatloads of money off everyone in sight.
So some sports network can make boatloads of money off everyone in sight.
To have a bunch of transnationals spend a bunch of money hawking their crap.
To have a bunch of amateur athletes, using every bit of modern technology available, perform like a bunch of circus performers for the entertainment of the masses.
If it were up to me, I would pick two permanent sites, one for the Summer Games, and one for the Winter Games, maybe in the middle of nowhere. Build them especially for the needs of the Olympics, and keep them up as needed. That would save money in the long run, and sure as hell wouldnt inconvenience the life of the people who just want to go about their daily business in their home city.