Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: American sportscasting : followup. Message-ID: <963@shark.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 03:19:48 EDT Article-I.D.: shark.963 Posted: Tue Aug 7 03:19:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 01:05:19 EDT References: <368@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 57 < They pelted us with rocks and garbage! > | W.r.t. comments that the problem is not the American people, but just | ABC -- baloney! ABC is a business. They do not broadcast stuff that | people don't want to hear. Americans love to hear that they are the | best. Americans love to hear that they have won an infinite amount of | gold medals, especially if they beat the communists. And the American | people just eat it up. If you don't like the coverage, change it! It | is supposed to be a free country. And do you care to tell us, oh wondrous fount of all wisdom, how we are to change a fait accompli? ABC has the coverage now and we cannot change that fact in any way. What we CAN do, and what HAS been done, is to complain loudly to ABC and to their sponsors about the cruddy quality of the so-called coverage. That has already had some effect, not enough to really change things. Don't assume that just because we recognize your right to speak freely that we will sit by and whimper as you self-righteously chastise us for what you imagine to be the egotistical faults of all americans. We will laugh at you, or deride you, but not particularly pay heed to your rant. I don't particularly care to hear anything at all about medals. I am an american. Your assertion is demonstrated false. | However, I am sure that the coverage is just what the American people | want to see. Why don't we see any other medal ceremonies than ones in | which an American has won (or co-won) a gold medal? No-no-no. Can't | have that. It is already too much that the U.S. hasn't won. Tell me, please, how you get this interesting notion? What I want to see is real coverage. I would enjoy the boxing much more without Mouth Cosell and his verbal flatulence. I would have enjoyed seeing more of the gymnastic competition, at least enough to get an idea of the caliber of the field. As an addicted weight trainer, I am very annoyed at the lousy coverage of weightlifting. I don't particularly care what country an athlete represents. There is no real effect on the world in any case, since we still prefer to kill one another rather than to use this kind of competition to decide our differences. | To be fair, I have received some mail from Americans who agree with me, | but I am sure there are not enough to change sports coverage, even if | they wanted to try. | David London ..!ihnp4!oddjob!london David, I detect in your dulcet tomes (pun intended) an abiding and intense detestation for everything american. If it bothers you this much then why are you here? You may not realize it, but this sense of national identity and pride which you detest is a common part of the human being and can be found in people from all countries. It becomes chauvinism in a lot of places. That is unfortunate but inevitable. Rather than spitting venom, why not try to make the worst cases aware that there is much to admire about other countries? Hutch