{"id":547,"date":"2008-08-22T01:46:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T01:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/?p=547"},"modified":"2008-08-22T01:46:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T01:46:45","slug":"less-yack-more-track-olympic-coverage-much-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/less-yack-more-track-olympic-coverage-much-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Less Yack, More Track&#8221; &#8211; Olympic Coverage Much Improved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the last summer olympics, NBC seemed to think we'd be more interested in watching their <a href=\"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2004\/08\/14\/nbcs-olympic-coverage-is-busted\/\">biographical vignettes<\/a> than the athletes' performances. It was the low point in a string of olympics that made me really wish they didn't have the exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights. And I really didn't like Bob Costas.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this year's coverage, I think it wasn't all Bob's fault -- I've been pleasantly surprised to enjoy his role, along with the majority of everything else I've seen.<\/p>\n<p>There have been imperfections, like the ridiculous interviews of people who'd just made a big mistake. For example, why on earth do we need to hear what a runner has to say minutes after they've been disqualified and lost their bronze medal for having stepped on a line? If the reporter had just lost their job because of some mistake they made, would they want someone shoving a camera in their face and asking how they feel? Let's have a little more class, folks.<\/p>\n<p>Still, overall I've really enjoyed the coverage (not to mention the performances!) It's nice not to have to say \"less yack, more track\" this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last summer olympics, NBC seemed to think we'd be more interested in watching their biographical vignettes than the athletes' performances. It was the low point in a string of olympics that made me really wish they didn't have the exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights. And I really didn't like Bob Costas. Based on this...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/less-yack-more-track-olympic-coverage-much-improved\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}