On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's an LA-based writer for a Brit paper who got axed from Twitter for, > f'rinstance, telling Lauer to shut up and for NBC Olympics chief Zenkel to > be fired for the non-liveness. > > http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--critic-of-nbc-has-twitter-account-suspended-after-network-complains.html
For which his account was suspended for "posting an individual's private information": Zenkel's corporate e-mail address, which is about as private as figuring out that I work at Arc Worldwide, finding the format of Arc's e-mail address, and e-mailing me there (as opposed to the e-mail address I use here). And who filed this complaint? Why it's NBC, with whom Twitter has an official partnership for the Olympics! http://www.twitlonger.com/show/ijkaqa Simply put, NBC wants to continue to operate under the assumption that the Olympic Games is a piece of reality television, able to be edited, modeled, and adjusted in a manner that allows them to create three hours of coverage between 8 and 11 PM ET. The catch, of course, is that the rest of the world does not believe this, and treats it as a sports event to be aired live. NBC has clearly decided they don't care, which, bless their hearts, they're more than allowed to do that. But they should not act like they've gotten the vapors when people who align with the rest of the world disagree violently. As for their online coverage: I tried to watch a tennis match today for the sole reason of seeing the AELTC. I think I've mentioned that I work as an interaction designer, which means I try to make websites reasonably easy for users to use. It took me 10 clock minutes to start watching a match that was going on live (and that involved going back and forth between nbcolympics.com and london2012.org). How anyone is supposed to figure out that site without a metric ton of patience is beyond me. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
