On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay. You and Joe take your sports commentary *way* more seriously than I > ever have. :) > > I see your point, but I think this is gonna be one of those "we'll have to > agree to disagree" moments. If I know the broadcast is tape delayed, it > wouldn't bother me a whit if the commentary was recorded live or not. >
And I think right here is the crux of the problem, and the reason why I am willing to give NBC far more credit than many people seem to. There are some viewers who want to view sports as a news-like event. There are others who want to view it as entertainment. Trying to please both groups (and everyone in between) is very difficult, if not impossible. Personally, with the Olympics, I *like* the "show everything in a curated manner, edited to just see the exciting parts and tape-delayed to my time zone" approach, and I am actually more annoyed with the people who seem to have jobs that let them watch everything live and then post online about the results spoiling it for those of us who want to treat it as a primetime television event. For these events, I don't care if an announcer knows ahead of time. On the other hand, if you were talking about Braves baseball games I would feel very differently, and I treat those as 'news' -- I want journalistic integrity (or some variation thereof) from my reporters and I am the annoying one who posts in real time when I am watching live. Is this intellectually consistent? No, but it is how I feel. d -- 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
