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Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--critic-of-nbc-has-twitter-account-suspended-after-network-complains.html ^

Posted on 07/30/2012 2:53:52 PM PDT by kcvl

Guy Adams works as a writer for The Independent, a national newspaper in Great Britain. He lives in Los Angeles. Throughout the Olympics, he's taken to Twitter and ripped NBC repeatedly for its coverage of the Games in America.

Namely, he's criticized the network's reliance on using tape delays, a frustration shared by millions of viewers.

Only in a marriage of old media and social media, Guy Adams no longer has a Twitter account. It was suspended Tuesday, and both NBC and Twitter ought to be humiliated by their thin-skinned, heavy-handed, and essentially pointless behavior.

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NBC = Nobody Better Complain

That's the way it used to be.

Now Jay Leno complains about NBC decisions, ratings almost nightly.

21 posted on 07/30/2012 4:23:09 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: D-fendr

He posted the corporate email of NBC exec Gary Zenkel. With an email address like Gary.zenkel@nbcuni.com, there should not have been any expectation that it was any secret.


22 posted on 07/30/2012 4:34:19 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: gilor

I think they calle it LIVE.


23 posted on 07/30/2012 4:53:23 PM PDT by democratsaremyenemy
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To: gilor

I think they calle it LIVE.


24 posted on 07/30/2012 4:53:23 PM PDT by democratsaremyenemy
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To: the invisib1e hand

big corporations rule.


They will do themselves in with fascist crap like this.


25 posted on 07/30/2012 6:22:15 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: democratsaremyenemy

I’m not sure you understand how this whole “TV” thingy works.


26 posted on 07/30/2012 6:50:18 PM PDT by gilor (Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
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To: SaraJohnson

They do what the govt wants, and then the govt takes them over. That’s the Marxist way.


27 posted on 07/31/2012 3:31:12 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Woe to them...)
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