Turn on Your TV For a Documentary Tribute to An Amazing Broadcast Journalist!

[NashVegas]

On HBO right now:

Jim McKay: My World in My Words.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Munich, 1972

I watched every minute of that nightmare, and McKay made history.

He finally said, simply, "They're all gone."

He was brilliant.

[TomInTib]

3. I was home on leave from The Bad Place when my precious Aunt...

woke me up and told me there was history in the making.

I could not believe what I was seeing.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. What a great Aunt!

Very prescient.

That was our introduction to terrorism. It's been around that long. Hard to believe that was 36 years ago, but I just found on the shelves a book I bought back in 2000 (I've had a long reading list for a long time), by Simon Reeve, called "One Day In September: The Full Story Of The 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre Operation, 'Wrath Of God'". The cover says "Now an Academy Award-winning film."

I do believe it's time to start reading it, just to remember.

[SoCalDem]

4. And that's when the innocence died..The Olympics never recovered

and should be scrapped altogether. The modern terrorist movement started then too. They discovered that television was their ally.:(

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. That's exactly wrong, with all due respect

The Olympics need to keep going on, letting those motherfuckers know they can't stop anything. That's when we lose, when we bend to their mad will. Our best revenge is to keep living as the good country that we are. We'll be more able to do that once we get that assmonkey out of the White House.

[SoCalDem]

8. After that Olympics is when it seemed to be TOO security-minded

and the ramped up cold-war/political stuff magnified.. The sport aspect is fine, but it's too professional..and very little emphasis seems to be on the athletes anymore..

(except for the schmaltzy "up close & personal" crap)..

I used to always look forward to them, but haven't even watched for YEARS..

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. You know what got me about the Olympics?

When the US started sending professional basketball players instead of amateurs. That's when they lost me.

[SoCalDem]

10. Yep.. it sucks now.. We always complained when the Russians were kicking our asses in hockey

because their athletes were "subsidized"...so now WE do it too..:eyes:

and all the drug stuff.. turned me off completely..

[NashVegas]

11. Yeah, Ain't That the Truth

[hlthe2b]

2. God, isn't that the truth....

But know that McKay did have to cover fluff too...I was watching the DVD extras from the original AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (yeah, my blockbuster online list keeps pumping out these available oldies from time to time). There was McKay, covering Elizabeth Taylor and the massive premier parties of then husband-producer, Mike Todd. Like Murrow, McKay had to do the celeb beat, too. He did it with class, though.

[NashVegas]

12. Oh Yeah. You Know What's Great Though?

The documentary (it's narrated by McKay, himself, it's more or less a memoir) does a short feature on Olga Korbett and McKay talks of how part of what made her so special was how she bucked the Soviets' standards of conformity; that she performed for the audience as much as the judges and that got her into trouble with her teammates and team coaches.

[Greyhound]

5. K & R.

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