|
Another Olympic rant
So I'm watching the coverage of the Women's Saber yesterday on CNBC (or MSNBC, or something), where two of the four women in the semi's are American, assuring that America will win it's first medal in fencing in 100 years, and they show the two semis, then the bronze medal match (in which the American won the bronze), then announce (at 5 to 8) that the gold medal match will be covered in "prime time" on NBC. Okay, that's cool. I flip over to NBC.
10 minutes into the broadcast, they show 15 seconds of highlights from the gold medal match, a then a minute and a half of the medal ceremony, then, what, 8 hours of women's gymnastics all-around, with features on each American competitor, each Romanian competitor, all the Russians, all the Romanians on the 2000 team, all the coaches, the competitors' pets, their stuffed animals, the pets they lost at a tragic young age, the pencil one of them had that broke, and the ultrasound tech who predicted that one would be a gymnast when she was still in the womb.
A full saber match takes less than 10 minutes. Would it have killed them to show the whole thing? At least on the alternate channel? They had this big build up, and then...nothing.
In the words of Bart Simpson, "I didn't think it was possible, but that both sucks and blows."
|
