Launching its coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies this evening, NBC took the low road. In the first ten minutes of an eagerly awaited family television event, during the dinner hour, NBC ran the video of Nodar Kumaritashvili’s fatal luge crash. Twice. I was absolutely appalled. Not an hour before, I’d been on … Continue reading NBC opens Olympics with death video
Congratulations to Rio de Janeiro for winning the 2016 Summer Olympics. The IOC eliminated Chicago and Tokyo from the final four contenders, making it Rio vs. Madrid. Looking only at geography, I’d call their final decision logical. Asia just had the games in Peking, and the US has hosted many Olympics over the years. Of … Continue reading Blame it on Rio
Update to yesterday’s post about the disappearing Chinese documents proving one of their gymnasts is underage: Well, well, it took the MSM long enough to pick up the story. Fox News just had Mike Walker (aka Stryde) on for an interview, telling about what he found. Trust me, his blog post, now posts, are much … Continue reading More on those Chinese documents that keep vanishing
(Several links in this post broke at some time after it was originally posted.) This is a fascinating peek into how people can dig up stuff on the Internet. A computer security expert at Stryde Hax decided to see if he could track down any official Chinese records about the birth date of one of … Continue reading Expert finds Chinese records showing gymnast is underage
I first became aware of Slate’s Olympic Sap-o-Meter a few days ago, and have become a huge fan. It’s wonderful that someone thought to do this kind of Olympic coverage. The Sap-o-Meter keeps a daily count of all the sappy words used by NBC’s Olympic announcers — Mom, dream, and sacrifice, for example — and … Continue reading And you thought the Olympics were about sports! Ha!
