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Misogyny Drives NBC's Tape-Delayed Olympics
Real Clear Sports ^ | August 7, 2016 | Samuel Chi

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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TOPICS: Society; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: nbc; olympics
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1 posted on 08/07/2016 7:36:13 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

“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.


2 posted on 08/07/2016 7:42:17 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: C19fan
NBC's choice of Meredith Vieira and Hoda Kotb (along with testosterone-less Matt Lauer), instead of Al Michaels, Mike Tirico and Michele Tafoya, makes it clear that women can't be trusted to watch a sporting event without somebody to help put it into context for them.

Turning the Olympics into the Rose Bowl Parade. Yay!

3 posted on 08/07/2016 7:43:39 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“Islam has nothing to do with this.”)
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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.”


4 posted on 08/07/2016 7:44:38 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
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To: Enchante

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.


5 posted on 08/07/2016 7:45:48 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“Islam has nothing to do with this.”)
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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.


6 posted on 08/07/2016 7:54:38 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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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?


7 posted on 08/07/2016 7:55:35 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

i call for reparations. :=|


8 posted on 08/07/2016 7:55:48 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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NBC is going to take a big hit in the ratings for the Rio Olympics. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving network.


9 posted on 08/07/2016 7:57:28 AM PDT by freedom1st
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Samuel Chi, another lost cause that has been brainwashed/conditioned in the realm of


10 posted on 08/07/2016 7:59:50 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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It's misogyny to have the opening coverage hosted by Vieira and Kotb? Maybe hatred for the entire human race, but I don't see it as a specific hatred for women.

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.

11 posted on 08/07/2016 8:00:24 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

It’s like putting a pink handle on a hammer and calling it a hammer for women.


12 posted on 08/07/2016 8:01:17 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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Misogony is a big word for a girl


13 posted on 08/07/2016 8:02:48 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%en)
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To: Enchante

NBC has a streaming app now where you can just watch the sporting events and skip all the olympic melodrama on the regular broadcasts.


14 posted on 08/07/2016 8:06:00 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
That’s called “condescension."

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."

15 posted on 08/07/2016 8:06:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

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”.


16 posted on 08/07/2016 8:06:44 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: lodi90

great to know, I’ll check that out, thanks


17 posted on 08/07/2016 8:07:51 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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#NBCSucks

+1

18 posted on 08/07/2016 8:08:00 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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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”


19 posted on 08/07/2016 8:09:52 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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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.


20 posted on 08/07/2016 8:19:58 AM PDT by TomGuy
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