Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!sbcs!debray 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 Article-I.D.: sbcs.706 Posted: Sat Aug 11 10:50:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:37:06 EDT References: <368@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook Lines: 28 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 uucp: {cbosgd, decvax, ihnp4, mcvax, cmcl2}!philabs \ {amd, akgua, decwrl, utzoo}!allegra > !sbcs!debray {tektronix, metheus}!ogcvax / CSNet: debray%suny-sbcs@CSNet-Relay