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February 27, 2006
Chris Warner Speaks Up
Yo, Media Curmudgeon. I gotta' beef about the Olympics. It's about time and money.
The most important thing is that the participants compete for free and represent themselves and their country. That is a wonderful ideal and inspires future generations. Unfortunately, due to the cost to win the Olympics contract, the NBC network cannot show events when kids can watch, and NBC shows more commercials than sports.
My three-year-old daughter, Ava, hears of Sasha Cohen, but because she skates at 11:00 p.m. at night, Ava has never seen her. The only ladies figure skaters she has seen are flawed third-tier girls, and she has to stay up past her bedtime to see them, and wait through Chevvy, Aisa and Levoso commercials to catch a glimpse.
I try to explain the essence of amateur competition to her, but it is so watered down that the message is distorted, if not lost. The system is seriously flawed.
Posted by Charles Warner at February 27, 2006 11:07 PM
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