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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: American sportscasting : followup.
Message-ID: <706@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 10:50:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 11 10:50:00 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:37:06 EDT
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Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
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oddjob!london:

	> 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. 

Judging from the majority of the comments I've seen on the net, this
universal quantification isn't valid.  I'm glad that's so.

And yet ...  I'd heard last week that after a formal protest from the IOC
chairman about biased coverage, ABC had agreed to a more balanced
presentation.  I haven't seen any dramatic improvements -- last night, for
example, Jim McKay announced that the US women's field hockey team had won
the bronze ...  no mention of who'd won the silver and gold!  Not a mumble
about the men's field hockey, since USA doesn't have a team there.  I can't
help wondering whether ABC is continuing with this because they feel that
that's what *most* Americans want to see!
-- 
Saumya Debray, 	SUNY at Stony Brook

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