NBC would find a way to botch a gangbang in a whorehouse. But you would have expected that, given that the Today Show’s executive producer is in charge of Olympic coverage. As a result, events are delayed eight hours and then delayed further so Ryan Seacrest can tell us what Joe Jonas was Tweeting about the opening ceremonies LAST NIGHT.
This isn’t sports. This is sports thrown in a blender, drowned under entire tankers of schmaltz and nonsense, dumbed down to appeal to the kind of people who think the Today Show is a newscast, and then they shower themselves in celebrating their own cleverness. And the worst part is that we don’t have a choice. We have to dig like hell if we want to somehow steal an illegal stream of the BBC’s coverage, because the “live streaming” NBC claims to offer has yet to function all day for me (thanks largely to basing their tablet app around the binary abortion that is Adobe AIR).
Nobody wants to watch the shit NBC throws up there. They watch because they’re a captive audience – they have the only Sunday night NFL game, they have the only home games for Notre Dame, they have the Olympics all to themselves. They pay to get it and then we are stuck with them. So much for the invisible hand of the market – NBC is apparently content with just the middle finger.
So don’t let the numbers fool you, Peacock Network: your coverage has taken the Pea out of your name. If we had any sense, we’d all rely on the stream and only the stream and maybe move the needle a little. Except, because we “need the contextual help”, NBC wouldn’t stream the opening ceremonies.
Cocks. All of them.