msn.foxsports.com - 8/21/2008
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The birth of the Internet means you can no longer dictate what is news, when news happens and what is appropriate for viewers. We get to make all those decisions for ourselves, thank you. So, to be quite honest, I'm not all that upset with NBC's "plausibly live" coverage of the Olympics. And I've been in Los Angeles since Sunday watching NBC's "implausibly tape-delayed" version of the Beijing ...
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Jason Whitlock hammers ‘plausibly live’
SmackCaster SmackBlog —
... Great column by the always strong Jason Whitlock, strafing the television coverage of the Olympics for 12-hour delays. Whitlock is right on, saying that events should have been shown on the internet live. Only fact columnist forgot is that NBC is out of tune with the internet, remember it is the only network that has failed — enormously — to succeed with its own standalone sports site. Its Olympic site is even getting whipped by Yahoo! in page views on the Games. So, it goes to figure that it would stand alone in being behind the times and trying to ...
The Roundup: The Rash of NFL Injuries Continues
The Big Lead —
... “Cursed with good looks, the ability to enunciate most words and access to the best parties and sociably acceptable drugs, TV people really believe they’re smarter than everyone else and essential to maintaining the myth of a true democracy.” Damn. (Fox Sports) ...
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