The Enemy of the People Thread
- Thread starter Tim Steelersfan
- Start date
I love when the Enemy of the People pay. The Olympics? They officially suck. Hope it hurts severely.
NBC is facing a cataclysmic loss of audience for the 2022 Winter Olympics as viewership tanked for Friday’s Opening Ceremony, averaging just 16 million.
It is a record low for the Opening Ceremony (20.1 million for 1988 in Calgary was the previous record) and a whopping 43 percent below the 2018 Games in South Korea that notched 28.3 million viewers despite also dealing with a less than advantageous Asian time zone for American audiences.
It comes on the heels of Thursday’s ratings disaster that saw just 7.7 million people tune in, dramatically below same-night audiences of 2018 (16 million) and 2014 from Russia (20.02 million).
NBC said the 16 million is a “total audience delivery” and includes all of its networks and streaming. The television-only average audience was below 14 million for the day, per the preliminary data released by the network.
China’s drastic anti-COVID measures have made life inside its “closed loop” a high-stress and near joyless experience for the athletes and a massive challenge for NBC.
Athletes have complained about the fear of positive tests, substandard conditions in unnecessary “isolation centers” and the need to guard against China hacking into their phones and computers to mine data and steal identities.
Friday’s Opening Ceremony from the famed Bird’s Nest in Beijing was scaled back (just over two hours) and rich with politics and propaganda, including a speech from International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach that might as well have been written by the Chinese Communist Party.
While the use of a massive LED screen on the floor produced some impressive visuals, it was a far cry from an expansive, welcoming, celebratory, over-the-top show China delivered to open the 2008 Summer Games.
It was a disturbing and dispiriting moment, a young athlete and an iconic moment in every Olympics used as a propaganda prop to cover up a campaign of slavery, torture, forced abortions and internment in reeducation camps. It did nothing to build good feelings toward the competition.
As such, rather than a celebration, this feels, and looks, like a grind of hardship, isolation and suspicion.
The lack of fans in attendance doesn’t help either. Thursday’s ice skating competition was surreal, a performative event where the connection between competitor and crowd is paramount. Instead, with just 800 in attendance, it looked and sounded like a practice session, complete with music rattling around within the poor acoustics.
All of this is a nightmare for NBC, which is paying the IOC $7.75 billion to broadcast the Olympics through 2032.
NBC is doing almost all it can but its reporters and crews are stuck in the “closed loop.” That eliminates live shots with mountains or historic buildings as backdrops as well as stories about the culture, architecture and people of China that can make the Olympics about more than just sport.
Host Mike Tirico broadcast from a set designed like a mountain chalet, but that could have been in Breckenridge, not Beijing. And Tirico, the face of the broadcast, will be leaving in the coming days to anchor NBC’s coverage of the Super Bowl, which due to the lengthening of the NFL season has spilled into the Olympic calendar and further siphoned off interest and outside media coverage.
Meanwhile, most of NBC’s play-by-play broadcasters are calling the Games remotely from studios in Connecticut rather than risk China’s COVID policies.
NBC is facing a cataclysmic loss at Olympics
Lowest TV ratings in Olympic history
NBC is facing a cataclysmic loss of audience for the 2022 Winter Olympics as viewership tanked for Friday’s Opening Ceremony, averaging just 16 million.
It is a record low for the Opening Ceremony (20.1 million for 1988 in Calgary was the previous record) and a whopping 43 percent below the 2018 Games in South Korea that notched 28.3 million viewers despite also dealing with a less than advantageous Asian time zone for American audiences.
It comes on the heels of Thursday’s ratings disaster that saw just 7.7 million people tune in, dramatically below same-night audiences of 2018 (16 million) and 2014 from Russia (20.02 million).
NBC said the 16 million is a “total audience delivery” and includes all of its networks and streaming. The television-only average audience was below 14 million for the day, per the preliminary data released by the network.
China’s drastic anti-COVID measures have made life inside its “closed loop” a high-stress and near joyless experience for the athletes and a massive challenge for NBC.
Athletes have complained about the fear of positive tests, substandard conditions in unnecessary “isolation centers” and the need to guard against China hacking into their phones and computers to mine data and steal identities.
Friday’s Opening Ceremony from the famed Bird’s Nest in Beijing was scaled back (just over two hours) and rich with politics and propaganda, including a speech from International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach that might as well have been written by the Chinese Communist Party.
While the use of a massive LED screen on the floor produced some impressive visuals, it was a far cry from an expansive, welcoming, celebratory, over-the-top show China delivered to open the 2008 Summer Games.
It was a disturbing and dispiriting moment, a young athlete and an iconic moment in every Olympics used as a propaganda prop to cover up a campaign of slavery, torture, forced abortions and internment in reeducation camps. It did nothing to build good feelings toward the competition.
As such, rather than a celebration, this feels, and looks, like a grind of hardship, isolation and suspicion.
The lack of fans in attendance doesn’t help either. Thursday’s ice skating competition was surreal, a performative event where the connection between competitor and crowd is paramount. Instead, with just 800 in attendance, it looked and sounded like a practice session, complete with music rattling around within the poor acoustics.
All of this is a nightmare for NBC, which is paying the IOC $7.75 billion to broadcast the Olympics through 2032.
NBC is doing almost all it can but its reporters and crews are stuck in the “closed loop.” That eliminates live shots with mountains or historic buildings as backdrops as well as stories about the culture, architecture and people of China that can make the Olympics about more than just sport.
Host Mike Tirico broadcast from a set designed like a mountain chalet, but that could have been in Breckenridge, not Beijing. And Tirico, the face of the broadcast, will be leaving in the coming days to anchor NBC’s coverage of the Super Bowl, which due to the lengthening of the NFL season has spilled into the Olympic calendar and further siphoned off interest and outside media coverage.
Meanwhile, most of NBC’s play-by-play broadcasters are calling the Games remotely from studios in Connecticut rather than risk China’s COVID policies.
I wouldn't watch that **** if you paid me money. Now how much money is a different story, but the point stands.
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2014
- Messages
- 21,037
- Reaction score
- 23,277
- Points
- 113
Um try not holding the Olympics in one of the most oppressive ruthless brutal countries on the planet that just manufactured a plague they let loose on the world.
I mean ****,what the hell are they thinking giving the Olympics to China. They could have easily said hell no China. Clean up your act and we will think about it...duh. May as well let North Korea host them next, that would be a hoot.
Shows how ******* utterly despicable and ultimately clueless they really are.
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2014
- Messages
- 21,037
- Reaction score
- 23,277
- Points
- 113
They're ******* idiots for signing off on this ****. I guess it's a real **** show how athletes are being treated in this super isolated covid paradise.
I forgot about the olympics. I usually just watch hockey
Media ... always even-handed. Case in point:
- Youngkin (R) removes mask mandate on kids who face zero risk from Chinese flu = Hitler-Trump!!! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!
- Phil Murphy (D)umbshit to remove mask mandate March 7 - brave genius!!
- Youngkin (R) removes mask mandate on kids who face zero risk from Chinese flu = Hitler-Trump!!! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!
- Phil Murphy (D)umbshit to remove mask mandate March 7 - brave genius!!
I haven't watched one minute this year. I used to watch because I rooted for wipeouts. Nothing is funnier that watching pairs skating when the guy chucks the waif and she goes sprawling into the boards. Ski crashes are good fun too. But I don't have any interest right now. A communist country hosting and broadcasted by a communist fake news network...I'll pass.
And why wait till March? Like what ******* science said hmmmmm yeah March.
Wait, you think the Chinese flu cannot read a calendar?
Yet more evidence you are ignoring the sCyEnSe!
More evidence (as if any more were needed) of the blatantly biased and patently slanted coverage from the garbage dogshit paper known as the New York Commie Times:
Oh, OK. NYCT reporter taking directions from the Dementia House not to write a story. But I am sure they were just as hospitable to the prior administration, amirite??
Okay, so the NYCT was tough on the Trump administration. But come on, man, I bet they are blisteringly-tough on Gropey Joe and the Dementias!!
Okay, maybe a little slanted, but I mean the NYCT would never stand for its left-wing ideologue imbecile staff flat-out skewing news, hiding news favorable to Trump, or even lying about the news. Right??
thefederalist.com
Left-wing tards and bootlickers and their ideological quisling sheep respond:
Oh, OK. NYCT reporter taking directions from the Dementia House not to write a story. But I am sure they were just as hospitable to the prior administration, amirite??
Okay, so the NYCT was tough on the Trump administration. But come on, man, I bet they are blisteringly-tough on Gropey Joe and the Dementias!!
Okay, maybe a little slanted, but I mean the NYCT would never stand for its left-wing ideologue imbecile staff flat-out skewing news, hiding news favorable to Trump, or even lying about the news. Right??
Emails Show NYT Doing PR For Biden's Interior Department After Harassing Trump's
Emails between the New York Times and the Interior Department show a stark contrast in coverage between administrations.
thefederalist.com
Left-wing tards and bootlickers and their ideological quisling sheep respond:
National Review has an article out today on this. What caught my eye was a reference to our very own Pittsburgh Dad:
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/nbcs-cataclysmic-olympics-coverage-flop/
Watch this. Just do it. I'm not asking, I'm telling you. 
That was good
And they ain't alone. I saw this blatant piece of two faced Communist rhetoric this morning and remembered that Snopes has repeatedly been touted as fair and impartial....LOL
Snopes Hilariously Attempts to Fact Check Biden Admin “Crack Pipe Giveaway” Story
Earlier this week the Washington Free Beacon reported on a story that seemed to indicate Hunter Biden is calling the shots.According to their reporting a $30 million grant program that begins in May will give money to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts. We also learned that “Applicants for the grants are prioritized if they treat a majority of ‘underserved communities,’ including African Americans and ‘LGBTQ+ persons,’ as established under President Joe Biden’s executive order on ‘advancing racial equity.'”
Here's Snopes ....
Yeah you read that right.
So in other words, according to Snopes it’s not true that the Biden administration has a program to distribute crack pipes to addicts because the Biden administration has a plan to distribute crack pipes to addicts in combination with other policies in a similar theme.
Snopes also took issue with reporting that the administration’s crack pipe giveaway was to advance racial equity, which they say isn’t true because the grants encouraged recipients to advance racial equity *while* working for harm reduction, not *from* harm reduction – a completely meaningless distinction the fact checker actually thinks is a rebuttal:
Snopes Hilariously Attempts to Fact Check Biden Admin "Crack Pipe Giveaway" Story
this week the Washington Free...
These leftist loons get goofier by the day. How in the world anyone can't see the total bias BS is beyond comprehension.
Oh yeah...here's more commie crap.
Airbnb Confirms Ban On Commentator Michelle Malkin | The Daily Wire
Last edited:
Watch this. Just do it. I'm not asking, I'm telling you.
They had me at "mostly peaceful protest" while the background looked like something out of Somalia around 1993.
So stunning and brave for him to be there after what he had to go through:
Beyond ridiculous.....
Similar threads
