[mark_l_watson]

The article makes a good point that cable-cutters have to do some extra work. Another separate issue is that MSNBC's (or the General Electric News Network, as I call them) really did a poor job on the coverage. I thought that a few of the announcers were consciously dissing on non-USA athletes. Isn't the Olympics supposed to be about good will and respect for athletes from around the world?

Another issue was in the choice of which events to cover. MSNBC would sometimes play USA athletes' performances over and over. Once would usually be enough, to make time for showing more sports venues.

This isn't just my opinion. Literally everyone I have talked to about the Olympic coverage did not like MSNBC's coverage.

[cweiss]

Agreed - As someone who got rid of cable and even ditched the OTA antenna (in the US), I couldn't watch any live coverage.

Since the news broadcasts (which are plentiful for cord-cutters) left the actual event-centric coverage to the NBC streams, most of the coverage I saw was of non-event specific news, primarily negative.

[codeddesign]

Good will? That's why they have competitions based on country to beat each other with elevated podiums displaying they are better than the rest (gold, silver, bronze)? The good will is allowing every country to compete, the competition itself is not for goodwill.

[audleman]

> That's why they have competitions based on country to beat each other with elevated podiums displaying they are better than the rest (gold, silver, bronze)?

They also start the Olympics with the walk of nations. Maybe not as many people care about that, but I love to see each team walk down the way in their national garb waving to the crowd.