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From: marla@ssc-vax.UUCP (Marla S Baer)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: American sportscasting - further comments
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Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 16:52:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 16:52:04 1984
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David London says:

>  It hasn't changed. Why? Simply because it is what the American public (the
>  "average American") wants to see. If a majority of Americans were truly
>  bothered by the coverage, the ratings would have shown it, and the 
>  presentation would have been changed. But the ratings were always top, and
>  the presentation has stayed the same (perhaps gotten even worse). 

The thing that Mr. London has forgotten is that the ONLY station
covering the olympics is ABC (unless you get CBC on cable).  If you
want to see the olympics, you have to watch on ABC.  People enjoy
watching the games, and between watching the biased version and no
version, I choose the biased version, even though I don't like it as
much as I would a non-biased version.

Marla Baer-Peckham
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