The following satirical news story comes from borowitzreport.com:
“A member of the U.S. Olympic diving team was disqualified from competition today when it was learned that he did not have a sufficiently compelling human story line to exploit on the NBC telecast of the worldwide sporting event.
“Tracy Klujian, the expelled diver, was not raised by a single mother, never had a career-threatening injury, and did not overcome a personal tragedy of any kind before making the Olympic diving team, U.S. Olympic officials revealed today.”
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This is one of two reasons that I stopped watching all Olympics coverage a decade or so ago. The other reason was the commercials.
The last time I watched ‘em on tv, here was the Olympics coverage formula: take 1 minute of actual sports coverage, add 4 minutes of inane “human interest” stories (grew up on a reservation, father in prison, diagnosed as a toddler with xyz, whatever it takes to manufacture hope on a scale all out of proportion with everything EXCEPT keeping the viewer in his seat long enough to sell ad time), followed by 1 minute of actual sports coverage, followed by 4 minutes of commercials. Repeat 6 times per hour, for each hour of Olympics television coverage. Sounds like not much has changed.
Unfortunately there is no remedy yet to this madness, largely due to the penetration of HDTV programming and televisions.
So I have a choice. I can throw things at/through my television, or I can skip it all. Being the well-adjusted human I am…ahem, I choose option #2.
The “format” of the Olympics coverage is “anti-victim culture” — So it is not surprising that liberals and liberal journalists don’t like to hear the truth. The Olypics show crybabies how real people have had it MUCH worse, and done MUCH better.
Gut up and get the job done! That is the message of the Olympics.
American Socialists hate that message.
Look, record the damned things, and fast forward through the Garbage. And Franklin, the story of the Olympics is one of certain children with talent being given huge opportunities. How do you think the Chinks are taking all those medals? Sure, one of the swimmers had cancer of the nuts, but he lost. Get it?
How is the webmaster letting the above post stand? There is a difference between opininions and just plain bigotry and stupidity. Seriously?
beber is a Democrat, by the way.
The bigots on this Blog are almost always Democrats.
I only watch the Olympic events that interest me. I used to be a competitive swimmer in high school, so, I can’t help but get excited about the swimming events. The stories about the adversity that the athletes overcome are always interesting. However, NBC does not do a good job of these stories. The A&E Biography would probably do a better job than NBC.
And, don’t pick on Phelps because he had a single mom. Everyone knows why he’s in the news. He is going to beat Mark Spitz record of 7 gold medals in one Olympic game, if all goes well. I don’t think he is the greatest athlete of all time, although he probably is the greatest competitive swimmer, so far. I don’t think I could achieve what he has if I tried and put my mind to it.
The following satirical news story comes from borowitzreport.com:
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IT WAS A GREAT SATIRE ARTICLE! I loved it.
FWIW, I learned from a couple co-workers today that the Olympics coverage has v a s t l y improved this year. :wink:
There are something like 7 channels devoted to the Olympics, they tell me, and Cox even opened up 2 new digital channels devoted respectively to soccer and basketball exclusively (digital package only, I’m told).
I would just note that both of them also own humongous HDTVs, too, and imo the Olympics just gives ‘em a chance to put their toys through the paces with NEW sports to watch.
There may be a slew of additional channels to switch off against (when either commercials or “human interest” stories are aired), but I’m bettin’ NBC is fully aware of, and taking full advantage of, the near-starved-for-content behavior of HDTV owners. In my estimation, if NBC knows that HDTV owners will watch damn near anything as long as it’s in HD, then the odds are good that NBC will air damn near anything, including too many commercials and unending “human interest” stories.
Ok, back to your regular programming…
Good grief, a thread on satire, and the first thing out the neo-con frankinmouth’s mouth is how screwed up liberals are. I can assume then that frankinmouth finds liberals to be swell people, if judged by this satirical thread? There is a God after all!
Or maybe its frankinmouth’s modus operendi to wait behind his favorite bush (little play on words there), and jump out every once and awhile and shout, “Boo!!!” I know I’m scared . . .