The zoom on an openly crying and upset Bode Miller continued for a good minute; either the camera crew was confused or the reporter simply lacked decency; they should have gone to a new location immediately and avoided this and the inane questions Christin Cooper asked him on tv.
Is anybody even watching the Olympics?
I hope the chick loses her job over it, she had zero respect for the guy's dignity and totally ruined an important moment of his life for him.
If there was some producer egging her on the same goes for them too.
NBC are scum.
VERY POOR TASTE. But what does anyone expect from that useless network.
The whole thing was very uncomfortable to watch.
The answer is simple: The winter Olympics has turned into the chick Olympics. Crying makes for more eyeballs waiting to see what happens next.
My wife and I saw that too. My wife just exclaimed “ENOUGH already!” and changed the channel.
Dirty Laundry - Don Henly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xr31XbSOU&feature=kp
I tried to watch some of the ice skating, but this Johnny Weir person who wears women’s jewlery is just too much to take. Really, it’s past disgusting. They are putting people like this in our faces just because they can.
This is typical for NBC, the worst network ever. Even its sports reporting is repulsive.
Scary day. I agree with the NYT.
Have to say, I felt for Bode Miller. I lost my younger brother in August 2012 quite suddenly from a massive brain aneurysm and there are still times (like yesterday, watching that "interview") that I get emotional about it.
My heart really went out to Bode. The "reporter" though -- I hope she burns in hell.
One last comment: I really wish they'd have left the camera off Bode's wife consoling him as he remembered his brother. On the one hand it was very touching and it's so crystal clear that she loves him dearly. On the other hand -- NBC should've respected that as a private moment for them and left the camera elsewhere.
NBC's just a bunch of bastards IMO.
Hard to believe that someone, anyone at the NYT has a conscience.
I saw that “interview” ..... just terrible. It was an emotional moment for him and she kept pulling every string she could, trying to get him to unravel when she saw him starting to tear up. Then the camera followed and focused on him while he tried to pull himself together. Yet another reason to dislike the enemedia jackals. I’ve watched very little of the Olympics ... just happened to be flipping through the channels. What a sorry bunch NBC has - Bob ‘Pinkeye’ Costas, Matt Liar, and since it’s all to much for Matt to handle, now Meredith Vieira is helping out. Ugh.
It absolutely was...I wanted to smack that beotch of a reporter for goading him.
“What are you feeling. You are upset whats going on inside whats going on inside whats happening inside....”
Jeez, stfu!
How dare she!
THis is what the press do daily folks, nothing new here except that during the olympics they tend to target younger folks with little media savvy as their targets to manipulate for ratings..
I hate the olympics, because in the US broadcast media its not simply a competition, they want to humanize every person and invent some drama or whatnot to try to get a vested interest from the watcher to boost their ratings and doesn’t matter how idiotic they have to be to do it.
Olympics aren’t the only time they do it of course, but its the most flagrantly obvious.
FMCDH(BITS)
I saw this. I wanted to smack the reporter.
This “interview” was taped hours earlier. NBC had plenty of time to edit out this abominable intrusion but they chose to keep it in because, I’m sure, they imagined it was “compelling”.
Anything to get ratings up.