Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!marla From: marla@ssc-vax.UUCP (Marla S Baer) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: American sportscasting - further comments Message-ID: <38@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 16:52:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.38 Posted: Tue Aug 7 16:52:04 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 03:06:49 EDT References: <370@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle Lines: 18 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 ssc-vax!marla