For real??

raynes · March 2010

For anyone that was listening to the Edge this morning, here's the article they were talking about:

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/28/2003874/in-these-olympics-canadians-only.html

For everyone else, this "journalist" compares our national pride to the Nazi's in the 1936 Olympics.

Not cool.

I don't understand why this guy thinks that we should be broadcasting other country's medal wins. Does the US post a front page article when Germany wins a gold? wtf?

I almost feel sorry for the interns at his office, because they're going to have one hell of a time sorting through all the e-mails and faxes that come through after Dean Blundel gave out his e-mail address.

Here's his followup article:

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/01/2006364/dont-let-the-games-message-be.html

It's not much of an apology in my opinion. And terribly written.

Jen&Joe06 · March 2010

I don't get it. There was tons of coverage of athletes from other countries. So....we weren't supposed to support our own athletes? We weren't supposed to wear red/maple leaf?

Miss_Not4Long · March 2010

there are lots of crazies out there

we showed other countries winning medals, when they crossed the finish line. We didn't necessarily show them on TV, but that is CTV and obviously they want good ratings so they are going to show whatever they want to when it is "live".

Temp679314250006041 · March 2010

And when you watch the American coverage they don't just show the American athletes? Some times they don't even show the entire event - just the Americans and if the gold, silver, bronze winners.

I think someone is grumpy his country didn't win the hockey game.

ring_pop · March 2010

Yeesh. Did he even WATCH the Canadian broadcasts? They talked plenty about the luge accident, Lindsey Vonn/Kim Yu-Na/Evan Lysacek/Chad Hedrick/Apolo Ohno/etc. And doesn't he come from a country where flags are flown from every other house on the street?