Last Olympics thoughts
and they aren't positive ones...
Dear NBC, please don't take a lack of ratings on
the Olympics to mean there is a lack of interest. Instead, take them as a
criticism of your crappy coverage (again). Maybe you could spend less time doing
puff pieces about the athletes and more time showing the actual events. Also,
instead of breaking up the events across an evening, maybe you could have the
whole event followed by another whole event, so we don't have to watch 20
minutes of skeleton to get book-ended snow-boarding coverage. Take a lesson from
the CBC, they do it much better for both Winter and Summer games which is why we
mostly watched them instead of
you.
Dear Canada, Avril Lavigne?
Really? Whose idea was that? I mean, she is better looking than most of your
music exports, but Sum41 or the Bare-Naked Ladies are much prouder Canadians and
they are also much better musicians. Also, I mean, the ceremonies are supposed
to be full of art-wank moments, but I have no idea what you guys were going for.
I know having the Cirque Du Soleil guys do the event would have been expensive,
but they would have done a much better job for the 3 billion people judging your
country.
Dear Olympic Committee,
nothing like capping the Olympic games where men and women compete on the global
stage as equals by having Ricky Martin trot out dancers dressed like hookers
caressing him and each other. Don't wait too long to remind those female
athletes that they really are just objects after all. Also, was having him a
budget cutting move or is he much popular in Europe than he is in the US these
days?
Posted: Mon - February 27, 2006 at 09:28 AM
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