{"id":351,"date":"2012-07-30T23:40:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T23:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2012-07-31T02:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T02:00:53","slug":"the-failed-media-consumer-how-nbc-does-not-consider-the-olympic-audience-nbcfail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/the-failed-media-consumer-how-nbc-does-not-consider-the-olympic-audience-nbcfail\/","title":{"rendered":"The failed media consumer: How #NBC does not consider the Olympic audience #NBCfail"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, NBC did a horrible job on not streaming a live version of the Olympic opening ceremonies. What did America get? A bad version of British History one could find on Wikipedia, oh no, wait, Wikipedia might actually have been a better information resource for Matt and Meredith as they tried to comment on the opening ceremonies.<\/p>\n

I had to sit through the “dumbing down” of who J.K. Rowling was, the British Industrial Revolution, and the TOO much talking parade of nations commentary.<\/p>\n

I thought Matt dumbed it down too much when he told us that the British call soccer football instead of soccer, especially since soccer is becoming a more popular world sport. Additionally, I found the broadcast unprofessional and unpolished when Matt said the Queen was cheering wildly as the director chose to show Queen Elizabeth looking bored and tired. It was a taped event, I’m sure they could have “edited” that out.<\/p>\n

I thought I was being too picky until I saw everyone else’s tweets and the new Twitter feed pop up called @Vieraandlauer during the opening ceremonies. One of my favorite tweets from the Viera and Lauer commentary is this one:
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Yes, it was really that bad.<\/p>\n

Then I noticed the new hashtag called #NBCfail. NBC didn’t like one reporter’s criticism and had him banned from Twitter. Click here for the story.<\/a><\/p>\n

Not only is NBC doing a poor job at doing their job, but they influenced the utlitmate free speech venue, Twitter, to silence a critic by asking them to suspend the journalist’s account on a technicality. I am sure Twitter knows they bent the rules for a media conglomerate who they know just wanted to silence a critic who urged the failed audience to take action. How dare we, the people, express our opinions on how we receive information. Supposedly, NBC does NOT consider us consumers.<\/p>\n

But, as NBC is delaying the content of the Olympics, they continue to fail us on their web site. For a network who wants us to watch their primetime coverage of the medal events, why does NBCnews.com continue to post the winners on their front page? Like this:<\/p>\n

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I suppose the #NBCfail \u00a0is why ABCnews.com is catching up in the morning news ratings wars. ABC does not spoil our fun. They have a separate link for Olympic coverage for people who want to know now. The stories they do have on their front page are not spoilers. But, at least, when I visit the web site without knowing the results of an anticipated event, it’s not on the front page. I can read the news. Hmmm… looks like ABCnews.com is listening to the audience.<\/p>\n

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Silencing a journalist because he tweeted a public email of an NBC executive exacerbated the Tweets about NBC and how they are really failing at providing instant coverage of the games. I would have hoped Twitter would look at the content of the Tweets and make the journalist either delete the tweet or hand out a warning. But, to suspend the account? Seems too harsh.<\/p>\n

We are all navigating the etiquette of the social media Olympics. Overall, NBC brought MORE negative attention to themselves and they can thank Twitter for helping them attract more negative criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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