OT- NBC Olympics Fail (No Spoilers)
NBC just announced all the winners of todays Olympic events right before the same events would all appear on their own station! They didn't even tell people who didn't want to hear the spoilers any warning at all. Complete idiots!
I don't understand how mgoblog can figure out the whole spoilers tag and one of the 4 major news outlets can't.
I understand where you're coming from, and think it's unreasonable to think that news organizations should refrain from reporting events as they happen. The result has been, at least for me, an avoidance of national news outlets in favor of googling specific subjects of interst in google news ("israel AND iran" if anyone's interested in the most important news story right now).
The problem is that I enjoy watching competition as it unfolds, and the reporting by national outlets has me avoiding them like the plague. The ideal soluton would be for the national media to offer sanitized websites: www.nytimes.com/nolympics
The demand it seems is for is a modicum of decency by Americans on social media as well as some accommodation from the national media.
There is only one way to solve this spoiler problem. All olympic games must be held on the east coast of the USA from this point forward. Sorry about that Sochi. We'll let Rio slide in 2014 because they are within an hour of "the real time".