As I told you before, the real problem with non-live events is the opportnity they give TV people to MANIPULATE the coverage. This manipulation is invariably obvious, and annoying.
For example, I KNEW that the American women were going to get a gold medal in the women's "eights" in rowing. I knew it before seeing the race in prime time. HOW did I know it?
Nope. It is not because I had heard the result. It is certainly not because I am psychic, or know anything about rowing. It is because I also saw NBC's daytime coverage of rowing. They showed every rowing final BUT the women's eights. That means ONLY one thing (98% probability). NBC wanted to reserve the shwoing of the gold medal performance for prime time, where they also could build "stories" arond a KNOWN result.
As I have said, this is ANNOYING in the extreme--at least to me.
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