Date sent:              Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:27:25 +0000 (GMT)
From:                   Paul Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/TV_theater/showArticle.jh
> tml?articleID=210002310

Thing is, it's the Chinese who understand the situation better than we do.  We 
are 
still labouring under the delusion that the Olympics are about that "higher, 
stronger, faster" crap.  The Chinese understand that it's about eyeballs glued 
to  
screens, TV budgets, entertainment, and image.  If you have one girl who can 
sing, 
and one who looks cute, you put the singer under the stage with a mike, and 
tell 
the cute one to stand on stage and make like a goldfish.  Fireworks are 
expensive 
and unreliable, so you fake up a tape, and make sure that nobody can get any 
video 
of the real stuff: you control the horizontal and vertical.

If anyone catches on, you try and divert attention:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=c6c8fea0-740a-4026-
8b03-09b8a3f1389b

If all else fails, you remind the media who's really in charge:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=e2b414ee-746d-4b81-
9a9e-99ebef5bdcdd

You didn't really think the Olympics were about honest effort did you?  (Now, 
if 
only we can get people to forget about that drug testing nonsense ...)

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