tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908127.post5841216473135641643..comments2024-03-14T13:08:14.915-04:00Comments on So, the thing is...blog: August 10, 2012 -- The OlympicsBarb Matijevichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16469997012394334517noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908127.post-24031430157414101642012-08-11T22:53:51.809-04:002012-08-11T22:53:51.809-04:00If you think our TV coverage is bad - let me tell...If you think our TV coverage is bad - let me tell you about BBC during the 1968 Olympics. I was living in a hotel in England, waiting for an apartment to open up, so I watched TV a lot. The Brits didn't have a lot of medal contenders that winter, but every British athlete got face time on TV. Maybe he or she came in 17th, so they'd interview the Brit athlete and talk about the magnificence of his effort and then, as a sort of afterthought, post the list of finishers. USA might be first, and USSR second, but we heard about them only in passing. All the coverage was on the Brit athletes and if you just watched BBC, you'd think they had swept the Games!psam ordenernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908127.post-43261898812100146302012-08-11T14:05:32.865-04:002012-08-11T14:05:32.865-04:00I guess I'm numb to the incredibly Amerocentri...I guess I'm numb to the incredibly Amerocentric television coverage - I find there is more coverage of offbeat sports and other athletes at non-prime times (I've been DVRing the middle of the night coverage). The thing that really gets me is the extended story segments about stuff like "the first "Dream Team" in Olympic basketball". Seriously? When you could be showing me pole vaulting or hammer throw or mountain biking or ... you're wasting your very expensive Olympic air time talking to Magic Johnson and Larry Bird?Ann in NJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08867456693546188505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908127.post-45254193046229377942012-08-11T11:57:25.974-04:002012-08-11T11:57:25.974-04:00Whenever you are ready to tell us all how you pull...Whenever you are ready to tell us all how you pulled a groin muscle, I'll be here.Baileyhttp://www.realhousewivez.comnoreply@blogger.com