Fewer Viewers Light Up Olympic Torch for NBC (tiny violin Alert)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/16/04 | Ben Berkowitz

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, I'm afraid you could make a full time job of correcting my spelling. Thanks for bringing this one to my attention, but sadly, there'll be more.

I'm sure some of my posts are downright painful. I try to spell-check on the long ones.

Take care.

[VOA]

So, someone's not going to watch the remaining 15 days of the Olympics, because she was on day one...

Oh, I was being a bit harsh.
But I guess the brass at NBC thought that they'd improve things by not trying
a repeat of their sad experiement with Jim McKay at the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.
They forgot to give the head chipmunk the gong.

Actually I'm sympathetic to NBC's struggle with the Olympics. It's much harder to
promote in an age of endless alternatives in cable/dish TV etc.
Not to mention that the Olympics really had a lot of the wind go out of the sails
with the fall of the Soviet Bloc. It's just not the good v. evil life-and-death
struggle against chemically-enhanced East German females that it used to be.

[Guillermo]

You're right, a lot of the political drama has left the games.

I don't see too many Mohammedan athletes.

Maybe they should have the Jihad Games, where Muslims compete to see who can put on their suicide belt the fastest, how many bombs they can plant in a pre-school in a set period of time, how loud they can chant "Death to America, Death to Jews"...