BOO NBC!!
I'm home this morning waiting for the security installer to show up. Got the TV tuned to the Olympic channel. And you know what pisses me off? Some of the world's most fantastic athletic achievements are going on over there, and the wanking Today Show is doing a special feature on ice skaters who fall down.
That is so offensively pathetic I can't even believe it.
That is so offensively pathetic I can't even believe it.
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posted by Jugglernaut at
7:47 AM
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Here's the deal: Ever since my house was broken into three weeks ago, I've left the TV turned on pretty much all the time to give the appearance that someone's home. And since the Olympics started on 2/6, I've had the TV tuned to NBC for coverage.
So far I think I've seen about 10 minutes' worth of actual Olympics and countless hours' worth of reruns of the same few minutes of footage. (Okay, it's possible I can't tell the difference between one luge run and another.)
At least half of what I see is the Cavalcade of Dashed Hopes. Somebody falling on the ice rink or wiping out on the ski slope. The wobble, the bobble, the tenth-of-a-point reduction in score that means the Death of the Dream.
If it bleeds, or is at least an incredible downer, it leads. If it's a happy ending, well, its 15 minutes of fame are already more than half over. Because sports should be grim and joyless, apparently.
Crappy coverage? Oh yeah.
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Jugglernaut, at 10:24 AM
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