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?"

Comments

I'm sure I'm the only one on the planet, but...

[Guppy06]

Who the fuck cares about the Olympics?

Jesus, techmuse must be on to something here...

[east coast]

They must have edited out when the aliens finally introduced themselves to the planet earth at the opening events. It was edited out by the evil bastard Bush. He wants to keep you in the dark about our new extra-terrestrial friends because they're going to do away with the oil industry and that's going to run the Bush family broke!

Or maybe techmuse's tin foil hat is just a little too tight...

Wake me up when there is some real news.