On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Darren Glass <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:49 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> You had asked me why I am critical of ex post facto commentary; I have >> given a couple of reasons, one of which I thought might resonate with you, >> since you had stated that you were irritated by spoilers. When NBC has done >> ex post facto commentary in the past, it has led to spoliers, in that the >> commentary tends to telegraph what is going to happen. >> > > Actually, I didn't ask you any such thing. Perhaps someone else did. I > totally understand why you such a thing bothers you. I was just trying to > say that it doesnt bother me because (from what I gather) you and I have > different goals and expectations and desires for our Olympic viewing, and > neither of us seems to be staking out the extreme positions that others on > the internet are. Which makes perfect sense to me. I just empathize the > NBC execs who are trying to appease both of us and the millions of people > with all kinds of varying goals and expectations and desires. > > I may have lost track of who it was who asked me why I thought the ex post facto commentary was odious, if that was not you then I apologize. Again though, I want to clarify that, on the issue of ex post facto commentary, NBC is not (as far as we know) trying to appease both people like me who don't like it and people like you who don't care. NBC, as stated by Bob Costas in his first introduction to the first night of primetime coverage, has told us that while all the events shown in primetime are of course taped, the announcers are calling the action live, and did not know the results when they did the commentary. If (as the one article I initially linked to argues, based on speculation and inference) there was ex post facto commentary in the women's gymnastics, it would not a direct violation of what Costas had told the audience. -- 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
