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Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony?
techmuse writes "Viewing the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony online at NBC's Olympics website, you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony, as listed at Wikipedia. NBC skipped roughly 100 countries ahead, then jumped back and forth, apparently delaying the appearance of the United States in its home market until later in the broadcast. (In fact, the US team was shown on the infield before they were shown marching!) NBC did not acknowledge this in its broadcast. Is NBC altering the reality of the broadcast to boost ratings? Was this true only online, or also in the live broadcast?"
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If you are not Windows or Mac, there is no web broadcast.
Gets me thinking, how did a Slashdoter view the web broadcast... Is someone using Windows?
to further nationalistic propaganda. All the medals won by Americans in the past were all actually made of tin. All the better to make hats with!
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I thought only America was in the Olympics. When did they start letting other countries participate?
the truth alters ratings to boost American media!
Now I don't know whether to boycott the Olympic Games because of China ignoring human rights or because it was converted to a festival of commerce. If it goes on like this, I may be soon able to boycott each day of Olympics for a different reason.
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Movie at about 12mid/11pm CT on NBC affilitates tonight... due to Olympic runover. You just never know when those taped sporting events will end.
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Sounds like a Quentin Tarnetino flick.
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Oh my, oh my. You mean the TV companies alter reality for marketing purposes? I am shocked.
All those yellow lines that magically appear and disappear on the football fields?
All those "billboards" that are not really there on the stadium wall?
I bet those starlets are even where padded bras. Do you think that they might even have had surgery. Goodness gracious, I wonder if Barbara Walters uses botox?
And those wrestlers. Do you think that they might be using steroids?
I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Actually, the MSNBC online video let's you pick what you want to see and caries a lot of obscure sports from end to end. Much better than listening to Pierre Salinger babble on about wine tasting in all the French villages while you are waiting to see actual athletes.
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Yeah but more entertaining & original.
American mainstream media alters the truth for many reasons, one of them is to boost ratings...
There..fixed that for ya.
That would just lead to a rash of countries with names like A One Republic and AAA Reliable Nation (well, probably in the French equivalent).
"Momento" sure made a lot more sense when it was shown on NBC!
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Indeed. I believe the practice started with the 1936 Berlin Olympics when the German newsreels showed only negatives of all of the track and field events, so that a white Jesse Owens could be seen beating the pants off of all the black athletes.
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The part where you pay at the cashier must have been edited out to make room for a commercial.
But then he wouldn't have gotten the chance to be a wordy, condescending asshole, and that wouldn't be Slashdot.
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I mean, it's not like we invented the Olympics or anything...
I didn't realize that the UK had such a big hand molding the games in ancient Greece. Thanks for clearing that up! I didn't know that!
-Just another stupid American
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Most Chinese dictionaries actually sort characters first by the radical and then by stoke count within each group of radicals.
Fool! Look at the government sanctioned sites! There are NO radicals in China!
Right, because the self-proclaimed sidestream media is such a paragon of truthiness. Fox News seems to think that fact checking is a payroll system.
No free radicals, you mean. Which is why Chinese always look so healthy and young.
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To hell with my karma. This may very well be the dumbest argument I've ever seen anyone make. And I've worked with a lot of complete douchebags that will argue about the most meaningless and stupid things.
The story didn't change. A bunch of people walked in a circle. NBC showed you a bunch of people walking in a circle. If it had been edited to look like the fireworks displays were going off when the American team came in, or to look like Nicolas Sarkozy was falling asleep when the Chinese team came on (instead of Uzbekistan or whatever it was), sure, what you are saying might be reasonable. But as it stands, you are making me wish slashdot had [img] tags so I could do better than just link to this. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/cowcowmoomoo1/arguingOnTheInternet.jpg
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That is why I watch FOX. At least they are objective.
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That reminds me of this cool movie called Memento...
You've got to cut the guy some slack: (1) It was unbelievably hot and uncomfortable in the stadium (2) The parade of nations is unnecessarily long and boring (heck, I tivo'd it and watched it sped up and it still took an hour) (3) President Bush can't look at a watch discreetly -- it takes time to figure out which is the hour hand and which does the minutes, and Mickey's so gosh-darn cute you can't help but stare