NBC — just like their cohorts at ABC and CBS — has spent so much time and effort trying to spin American military victories in Iraq into losses, that it’s affected their coverage of US victories in the Olympics.
NBC reporters just don’t know how to report US victories as victories — instead they try to find a way to spin them into losses of failures.
Thankfully, our athletes are having none of it.
Like when Andrea Kramer was interviewing swimmer Katie Hoff after she had won the bronze in the 400 IM (after she had broken the US record the day before).
Kramer asked her “So after yesterday’s disappointing performance, what are your thoughts for today?” Hoff got this weird look on her face and said, “I didn’t think my performance yesterday was a disappointment.”
Seriously…the girl had just set a US record and won a bronze medal. And she’s supposed to be “dissapointed”?
Earlier, an NBC reporter (can’t remember the name now) was interviewing boxer Demetrius Andrade after his 11-9 win over Kakhaber Jvania of Georgia. He asked, “After that nervous start and very up and down match, how do you plan to come back from that.”
Andrade looked genuinely insulted and said, “I didn’t think it was up and down. There’s nothing to come back from, I won.”
And these are just two examples I watched during limited Olympic watching on Sunday.
Seriously…the girl had just set a US record and won a bronze medal. And she’s supposed to be “dissapointed”?
It sort of depends on your expectations- if she wanted to win she might be disappointed.
I see worse media outrages everyday.
Left by Preston on August 11th, 2008 at 6:20 pm