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See NBC Spoil Its Own Olympic Coverage by Showing Commercial Announcing Winner…Before It Airs Actual Race!
- Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:47am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The Twitter hashtag “NBCFail” has gained steam since the Olympics opened last week. In fact, one journalist has been suspended for too much criticism on the social networking platform. And if ever you needed an example as to why that idea is taking off, here it is.
NBC didn’t help its cause on Monday night by airing a promo for the “Today” show showing 100M backstroke winner (and 17-year-old phenom) Missy Franklin with her gold medal. The only problem? NBC had not yet aired the gold-medal race, and in fact had just teased it as coming up. Twitter quickly erupted. Business Insider caught the flub:
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pathfinder41
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 5:34pmWhat does it matter even if the united states wins a gold metal. You just have to understand that the person that one the metal didn’t actually win the metal some one one if for them. Like you didn’t build your business either right. WRONG as he would have it, He has an answer for everything. Dam WRONG again.
Report Post »imagery
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:00pmI haven’t watched NBC or any of the lame-stream channels in years. Recently cancelled DirecTV too.
Report Post »Edresch
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:16pmThe coverage of the games is already delayed. Why not Tevo, tune in
Report Post »about three hours after the “start”, and fast forward through all the
commercials. I’ll be back after this.
Edresch
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:09pmI bet they stop the 100 meter dash right in the middle of the
Report Post »race and say we’ll be back after this.
Stratosaurus
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:53pmYou expect the management “experts” who hired li’l Chrissie Mattresspad, Rachel Maddog, Ed Schultz, Tourettes, and THAT gang of idjuts to make fools of themselves and miselad those wno are living under the mistaken impression that the “news’ media is telling the truth. That hasn’t happened since before LBJ, and has only gotten worse since the coronation (by the press and TV) of Odildo the Mad.
Report Post »BillyPenn
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:29pmOh how wonderful it is to watch yesterday’s events…..today ! Of course strange things do happen when you remove the word God, from our Pledge of Allegiance.
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 12:04pmWhat little I have watched – nbc is doing a very poor job of covering the games.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
jrcess
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 11:52amLMAO, they are not the sharpest tools in the shed. Look at their announcers.
Report Post »Listen_then_think
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:50amNBC sucks. I refuse to watch them.
Report Post »razvedka
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:27amOh how they have fallen. NBC used to be my preferred outlet for news years ago. Now NBC stands for “Nothing But Crap.”
Report Post »Jim
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:44amOh yes, how NBC has fallen never to arise from the ashes again.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:03amI accidentally watched some of Sharpton yesterday, it was painful, I was actually embarrassed for him….I could not believe what I was watching, resist we much…..
Report Post »JesterJay
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:02amI love Al if it weren’t for him who would read Wikipedia to me word for word. (FOR REAL WORD FOR WORD)
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:57amIn their minds they are the smartest human beings ever, after Dear Leader of course!
Report Post »JesterJay
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:30amNBC you guys cant do anything right lol
Report Post »balldini
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:30amThe MSM and Madison Avenue have destroyed what was once a great nation.
Report Post »Its all about their power and money, any institution or anybody that stands in their way will be destroyed.
TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:15amNBC ah need to cry fowl here and suspend itself.
Who watches the watchmen?
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:11amthe olympics are on TV? do people really watch that crap? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Report Post »DenisWTexas
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:01amHey, maybe they’ll go ahead and tell us who wins the election in November too. I’m ready for the economy to bounce back…
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:00amA once respected news corp, NBC has lost all credibility— and now enters the arena of incompetent and inept.
There you go—Liberals at the helm!
Report Post »commonsense63
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:56amIt took NBC .4 seconds to make me want to puke with the olympics yet again. I’m stuck watching preliminary heats, and preliminary gymnastics, while people compete for medals in other sports. All prevented from being live. Let alone the ridiculous commercials.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:55amAgain, does anyone actually watch this crap?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:38amI have NOT WATCHED one second of it.
Report Post »NBC===Nothing But Crap is a company I cannot support.
Like a post above….nbc will announce the election by November 1st.
Hopefully Tingles Chrissy will be crying cause his guy lost.
OMG 2012
IslandMama
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:53amHow can you know the winner if the race hasn’t happened? And if it has happened, how can you expect the winner not to get out – in this day with Twitter and all the social media available – how is it possible that news won’t leak? What I find egregious is that there are news cites – that I once really respected – like CNN that put up the words on the screen when people are talking, yet the words appear before the person says them and the segment is labeled as “live.” Either it‘s not live or they’re making up news.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:50amOh, duh!
Confirms our suspicions about nbc…. ill equipped to handle important matters.
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