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Gary, you have put into words what I have been thinking since the '84 LA Games. Do you s'pose that Carter's 1980 boycott signaled to the patriotism zealots that it was OK to carry on like they do?
But it is the over-the-top patriotism combined with the incessant desire to get women to watch, with touchie-feelie references galore...together with the notion that NBC is playing with its viewership (lack of live coverage for important events)...I feel like my kids have been cheated as far as real Olympics coverage is concerned.
Now ESPN programming head John Skipper is on the record saying that NBC has dishonored the notion of the Olympics with their shaping of the narrative...and that ESPN plans to bed on upcoming Games...and will show everything LIVE.
Bravo ESPN!
