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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?"
If you had watched the whole broadcast you would know that they introduced the countries in the order of number of strokes in their Chinese name.
No they didn't alter it, the order of countries this year was not alphabetical, it was done based on the amount of stokes for the Chinese representation of the country.
Why do people always assume alteration or tampering when things are not done the same from year to year or event to event ....
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"As Chinese is written in characters and not letters, the order of the teams' entry was determined by the number of strokes in the first character of their respective countries' Simplified Chinese names." See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics_Opening_Ceremony#Parade_of_nations
Also, who cares? Nobody gives a fuck about the olympics. The olympics is like cheering for $local_sports_team. The only point it serves is to placate the gullible masses temporarily. Why change the world or country or policies or attitudes when you can just make everyone happy by giving them a sport to watch and making them feel like they're somehow achieving "peace" because a bunch of random people are swimming the breast stroke for a medal?
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And how in the world does that count as flamebait? Offtopic perhaps, or troll even, but flamebait?
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