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‘Pampered’ Media Members Facing Backlash For Tweeting Sochi Problems
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/02/06/pampered-journalists-facing-backlash-for-tweeting-sochi-problems/ ^

Posted on 02/07/2014 1:39:19 PM PST by MNDude

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Yellow, murky tap water. Warnings about what a toilet can and can’t handle. Missing floors, door handles and light bulbs.

The complaints have been flooding in – and going viral on social media – as media members get settled for the Winter Olympics in Sochi. But just as quickly there’s backlash forming from people who say journalists need to stop grumbling about their accommodations in Russia and start focusing on covering the games.

One columnist in the Toronto Star even accused reporters from around the globe of turning “into Ugly Americans when venturing beyond their comfort zone.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014olympics; newmedia; news; sochi; twitter
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1 posted on 02/07/2014 1:39:20 PM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude

Poor babies.

Perhaps they would prefer to experience the living conditions that our troops have to live with, daily, in places like Afghanistan?


2 posted on 02/07/2014 1:41:20 PM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: MNDude

Paying back Putin for their gay buddies. Nothing more to this than that.

Mexico is far worse/more primitive. Ever hear them bitch about that?


3 posted on 02/07/2014 1:41:49 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Howie66

Or, the true living conditions that occur after their favored political system is enacted...


4 posted on 02/07/2014 1:42:13 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MNDude

Justin Bieber’s Case Drags Media In Wrong Direction On Immigration

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/24/justin-biebers-case-drags-media-in-wrong-direct/197734

What a joke.


5 posted on 02/07/2014 1:43:13 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: MNDude

Bunch of spoiled pussies.


6 posted on 02/07/2014 1:43:51 PM PST by jimbo123
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I wonder how many of the complainers are paying their own way.

You know, so that they feel they ain’t getting their money’s worth.


7 posted on 02/07/2014 1:44:02 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: MNDude

mssing floors MIGHT be a bit problematic if they are indeed Missing....


8 posted on 02/07/2014 1:44:08 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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The Wimpy Media needs to suck it up.

Most have not likely camped out with the Boy Scouts much less hung out in Afghanistan working on the Muzzies.

9 posted on 02/07/2014 1:44:20 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: MrB

Copy that.

I swear, these people deserve to have their asses kicked. Just for grins and giggles.


10 posted on 02/07/2014 1:44:26 PM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Yup.


11 posted on 02/07/2014 1:46:11 PM PST by OldNewYork
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Poor babies. They want to see an “inconvenience” try having their health care dropped.


12 posted on 02/07/2014 1:47:37 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Insurgent Conservative)
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Presstitutes see their being inconvenienced as a tragedy but the commoners lose their healthcare and that’s reported as a “glitch”.


13 posted on 02/07/2014 1:48:40 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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They need to be the first to go...


14 posted on 02/07/2014 1:48:40 PM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Poor babies. They want to see an “inconvenience” try having their health care dropped.


15 posted on 02/07/2014 1:48:59 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Insurgent Conservative)
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To: MNDude

They understand nothing apparently about being a considerate guest.

Most residents of Sochi likely don’t even HAVE indoor plumbing.

Oh, but I forgot....people in other countries only hate Americans because of the EEEEEEEVIL George W. Bush, right?


16 posted on 02/07/2014 1:49:54 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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This is fun,need to find their twitter handles:)


17 posted on 02/07/2014 1:50:52 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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It's all retribution by NBC, etc for Putin cracking down on the gays.

They don't get their parade so NBC will make him pay.

18 posted on 02/07/2014 1:51:11 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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Yellow, murky tap water. Warnings about what a toilet can and can’t handle. Missing floors, door handles and light bulbs. The complaints have been flooding in – and going viral on social media – as media members get settled for the Winter Olympics in Sochi. But just as quickly there’s backlash forming from people who say journalists need to stop grumbling about their accommodations in Russia and start focusing on covering the games.

Coming to a former constitutional republic near you!

19 posted on 02/07/2014 1:51:14 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: TurboZamboni

You got that right.


20 posted on 02/07/2014 1:51:30 PM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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