So now that the Olympics are over I can finally vent. Figure skating--why is it the only thing you can watch. Is this a reflection of some underlying obsession by Americans or does it demonstrate an archaic product that media wants to prove they can shove down our throats and make us like? All I know is that I would have appreciated the opportunity to watch the men's curling team win their first ever medal. Instead I got the figure skating gala, a chance for all the medalist to skate again for all their fans. This is just wrong, why should they be the only sport to get this opportunity. It is called the Olympics, not the world pageant of home-schooled adolescents gliding around in fashionless rags. We should demand more...more equality in presentation from the media. All the athletes deserve to be respected and portrayed in all their glory and shortcomings.
27 February 2006
Figure Skating Gala
So now that the Olympics are over I can finally vent. Figure skating--why is it the only thing you can watch. Is this a reflection of some underlying obsession by Americans or does it demonstrate an archaic product that media wants to prove they can shove down our throats and make us like? All I know is that I would have appreciated the opportunity to watch the men's curling team win their first ever medal. Instead I got the figure skating gala, a chance for all the medalist to skate again for all their fans. This is just wrong, why should they be the only sport to get this opportunity. It is called the Olympics, not the world pageant of home-schooled adolescents gliding around in fashionless rags. We should demand more...more equality in presentation from the media. All the athletes deserve to be respected and portrayed in all their glory and shortcomings.
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