Fear And Loathing In America Of The Olympics

[Fred Sanders]

American exceptionschism seems to now translate into one national TV station monopolizing all coverage, none of the coverage is live, live coverage is banned by some kind of national internet switch being thrown to OFF, they censor what they please, the announcers are uninformed, they do not even carry the opening ceremonies live!

Then you wonder why so many Americans are not into The Games, why some did not even know it started.....

In the meantime, while the monopoly TV station is not covering their monopolized event, the other TV stations are ginning up the fear angle at every opportunity, elevating a drunken man armed with a airplane peanut snack into an international terror alert, toothpaste into fear.....

Idiot America, enslaved by its exceptional Media Cartel.

P.S. CBC Canada coverage, French and English have different event coverage, always live first and the repeat on tape, is freaking AWESOME. Sochi is a beautiful city.


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Edit added: Apparently some of the coverage IS live, if you can find it on the national NBC channel and not NBC Sports, the cable channel, I would like to know.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. I tried to watch the Olympics on Canada's CBC on the 'Net

I was able to watch for about 45 seconds and then a message came up saying that I was in an area that that could not watch. I guess that explains it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I'm one of those middle brow Americans who likes the Summer Olympics events better anyway./NT

[badtoworse]

3. They're 7 or 8 hours ahead of us in Sochi.

Live coverage would mean it's being broadcast in the early morning hours and very few people would be watching. Besides that, I work and I'd like to watch in the evening when I'm home.

[Thinkingabout]

9. Tis true, and would be more time consuming to wait for the events to get started, etc.

With having it produced as a program they can insert station break to their convience.

[itsrobert]

4. I'm watching live coverage right now on NBC Sports Network

at this very moment. LIVE

[OKNancy]

5. I watched it live yesterday morning too on the NBC Sports Network

It's a cable station, but it IS available.

[CFLDem]

6. Or so they want you to think.

[giftedgirl77]

7. It's on live right now...

[hrmjustin]

8. Boycotting the olympics personally.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. The Olympic Games is a huge commercial enterprise,always and everywhere

The UK during the London Games had 'Brand Police' who enforced Olympic Product sales. Others could not say 'Olympic' or 'London 2010' nor use those rings that did not function well in Sochi.

"Fans in the crowd won't be allowed to upload snippets of the day's action to YouTube – or even, potentially, to post their snaps from inside the Olympic Village on Facebook. And a crack team of branding "police", the Games organisers Locog have acknowledged, will be checking every bathroom in every Olympic venue – with the power to remove or tape over manufacturers' logos even on soap dispensers, wash basins and toilets."
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/apr/13/olympics-2012-branding-police-sponsors

Of course I am boycotting because they'd not welcome my sort of person there.

[dionysus]

19. yes, didn't mcdonalds have exclusive rights to sell fish and chips or something?

[dipsydoodle]

11. Try BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/2014 Not sure whther or not that will work over side.

[Fred Sanders]

12. Live feed is blocked.

[alp227]

18. try this plugin

https://mediahint.com/

[Arcanetrance]

13. Not to piss in your cheerios but wouldn't the time difference between sochi and america

Make the airing of the games live happen at such odd times here viewers would be hard to come by at times

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Sochi is 12 hours ahead of the West Coast, it is 8 pm there, 8 am here.

So yeah. What happens there at noon is midnight here, not exactly prime time.

[FarCenter]

14. You can follow the medal count here - it's the only thing most are interested in

http://www.sochi2014.com/en

I've seen this unblocker reviewed a couple of places, although I haven't used it myself.

Chrome/Firefox: Hola Unblocker is a browser extension that removes region locks and allows you to watch BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Hula, Pandora, and more regardless of where you live. It doesn't require any set up and works right out of the box.

http://lifehacker.com/5978591/hola-unblocker-gives-you-access-to-iplayer-netflix-pandora-hulu-and-more-regardless-of-region

[Fred Sanders]

15. Thinking that it is possible that most people are more interested in the medal count than

bearing live witness to the best athletes in the world and the spirit that makes them the best is kindda depressing, sir/madame.

[Igel]

17. It's 21st century America.

The same kind of thing where
parents are more concerned with their kids' getting As than getting educated,
school administrators (district through federal) are more concerned with test scores than learning, and
politicians are more concerned with American kids' test score ranking.

We confuse what the evaluator says with the participants' performance, judgment with reality. We confuse form with substance. (Unless, of course, reality and substance directly affect us.)

[MicaelS]

20. I think the modern Olympics are a colossal waste.

IMLHO, all the Olympics are is:

An excuse for a certain class of “boosters” in a different city, in a different country, every two years to puff out their collective chest and show off how “great” is their city and / or country.

To spend billions of dollars to bring people to that city, so they can be sold a bunch of crap, and charge wildly inflated prices for services.

To tax the hell out of, and inconvenience the life of the people who live in that city, so some in said city can make boatloads of money.

So the IOC can make boatloads of money off everyone in sight.

So some sports network can make boatloads of money off everyone in sight.

To have a bunch of transnationals spend a bunch of money hawking their crap.

To have a bunch of “amateur” athletes, using every bit of modern technology available, perform like a bunch of circus performers for the entertainment of the masses.

If it were up to me, I would pick two permanent sites, one for the Summer Games, and one for the Winter Games, maybe in the middle of nowhere. Build them especially for the needs of the Olympics, and keep them up as needed. That would save money in the long run, and sure as hell wouldn’t inconvenience the life of the people who just want to go about their daily business in their home city.