February 2002

Verdict: NBC's Olympic Coverage Sucks
On The Tube

I need curling now! I have all the free time in the fucking world. Why can't I be watching curling right now? The DC government understands my plight, they gave my jury duty next month. Just trying to help me out.

NBC has two cable affiliates - MSNBC and CNBC both of which have total BS programming on during the day. Shows like Marketwatch and digital-doggy-style, or whatever, all sorts of hoo-hoo. Who cares? Curling is on now! And I wanna watch it. The US plays (I guess they call it playing, right?) Sweden, the reigning champs. Do I get see it? NO.

The affiliates are bombarding me with useless cathode rays. I never thought I would say it, but TEEvee is letting me down. Stock price this, accounting firm that. Who cares? I thought that with the great spectacle of sport, I could bask in the glow of my set all day, enjoying other people working hard exercising. Instead NBC and their rim-job partners are showing a bunch of BS.

Who gives a fuck about soap operas? They should be off the air, anyway, just for being such tripe. If NBC wanted to help people they would put on educational programming during the day so that us unemployed people could learn something. Or porn, either way. But they don't. They are content to package the day's worth of sport into a prime time ogle fest of PC 'overcoming odds' stories designed to WASTE MY TIME.

Oh, hell. Let's face it. Even if they did have it on, all they would do is put on stupid stories about athletes. For once, just once, I would like to watch an event and not have to hear about how so-and-so's parent was killed by wild boars just weeks before; or how this particular athlete has only one testicle and what a fucking miracle that is; or how this woman is the mother of so-and-so and isn't that fucking special? NO.

My only request is that the event be shown live, and they not muck it up with BS stories. NBC, can you do that? Keep it simple. Sheesh.