Posted on 08/07/2016 7:36:13 AM PDT by C19fan
The year is 2016. The United States most likely will elect a female president (RCP Averages say so). But American women, apparently, cannot be trusted to watch sporting events on their own.
NBC thinks so, just ask the the poobahs that run the network's Olympic coverage, past and present.
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“Misogyny” is an overused and misused word, though. Not every difference between males and females, statistical averages etc. is about “misogyny.” To the politically correct left, if you notice any sex-related differences at all that is “misogynistic’.... unless ofc the leftists are explaining why some “women’s view” is superior to the male, then that is not anti-male (misanthropic?), it is merely the Gospel of the Progressive Mafia.
Turning the Olympics into the Rose Bowl Parade. Yay!
Why is it “misogyny” for a broadcaster to tailor its product to what it believes women prefer to see? Isn’t that like “pro-ogyny”? If preferences have changed while the broadcast has not, then that’s poor judgment (typical in a monopoly provider), still not “misogyny.”
The article seems to be the writer’s personal preference gussied up as some kind of “analysis.”
Although words really do have meaning, feminism doesn’t care about that.
Feminism basically says that in every situation, either Men win, or Women win. It’s zero-sum. And, according to Feminists, Women always lose. Women are always victims. So Men are meanies who must pay for their transgressions. All the time. In every way.
I knew the Olympics coverage had turned to crap in my lifetime! I haven’t watched much of it in decades, but I was sick-to-death of all the soap opera “narrative” crap and just wanted to watch great events and performances. I couldn’t stand a lot of the announcers and so have watched rather little of it in the past 30 years.
That’s called “condescension”.
It is soft sexism IOW.
And I do see it in places. Despite the carping by men that feminism is ruining everything.
They really should just present the story as it is, and let viewers decide. A male-type activity is not going to be anything else, and if women don’t like it, so what. Watering down to attract women tends to also turn off women who have more “male” tendencies, so how are they winning by wrapping it in pink bows?
i call for reparations. :=|
NBC is going to take a big hit in the ratings for the Rio Olympics. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving network.
And the article didn't even mention the story I heard that NBC wanted the countries' athletes to enter in English alphabetical order so the US would be near the end at U rather than early with E to keep the American audience watching for a longer time. As it was, the opening ceremony was bad, but would have been unwatchable without the DVR fast forward button.
It’s like putting a pink handle on a hammer and calling it a hammer for women.
Misogony is a big word for a girl
NBC has a streaming app now where you can just watch the sporting events and skip all the olympic melodrama on the regular broadcasts.
Perhaps, if one assumes that men's preferences are the standard while women's are ipso facto inferior, which seems not much different from misogyny. To me, it makes more sense for a commercial broadcaster to make decisions based attracting viewers to its advertisers.
It's impossible to show the whole Olympics live, so a broadcaster has to make choices about what, how much, and when. In a free broadcast market, there would be many options based on attempts to draw specific viewers to specific advertisers. With a monopoly, there's little motivation for the broadcaster to keep up with viewer preferences, and much motivation for the broadcaster to make its employees, rather than the event, the focus of attention.
I stopped watching sports long ago because of all the noise from the "journalists."
It’s called business/marketing. Focus group testing (Which corporate does all the time due to billions being invested) pushes all this stuff; not buzzwords/magical memes like “misogyny” and “sexism”.
great to know, I’ll check that out, thanks
+1
It remains to be seen if I will tune in at all. If I do it will be because of Freepers posting about it stirring my curiosity. I’d rather see live images of Rio than the olympics, but the way it sounds I’ll be tuning into a live broadcast of “Cops: Brasil”
I have sort of channel surfed to some of the NBC cable events. I noticed that, nearly every time I landed on a channel carrying some Olympic event, I landed during a commercial.
It is difficult enough to try to find events I would watch, as they are scattered over nearly a dozen cable channels — some of which I have no access to. Even the ‘schedule’ on the NBCSports website is not that great.
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