Sick of Olympic Countdown ?

[P.C.]

Would that be a no ?  

[Lil Me]

I felt a glimmer of excitement when VanOC got the bid, but I've been jaded since then.
 
 
 
   

[P.C.]

Same here.  I think that another year of this...and it will only accelerate....will be mass Olympic overload.

[Lil Me]

I'm astounded at how many people have forked out mega bucks for tickets.
 
 
   

[P.C.]

I don't know anyone....yet.....but I'm sure there are plenty.  

[Sportsdude]

I saw the countdown on ctv, I'm already sick of it, my roommate was like 'why all the hate toward it' says he with a lot a cash.  

[P.C.]

I don't know if it's 'the countdown'  specifically that's bugging me.  It's the stories that cover things like....what screw they used to make the gondola...how many screws it took to make the gondola...what size screws they needed for the gondola....where the screws were made  ................................................

[Sportsdude]

Have you ever read a media study demographics report? Its quite hilarious.

local news is fluff, people don't want hard hitting stuff, and if local news is your only news outlet source aka you don't watch national news either. You're uneducated news person.

Only people 65 and older watch the evening national news. So stories tend to be about getting old, some famous person dying, retirement savings, the commercials are all heart medication, viagra (although Michael Ignatieff gets a hard on with Russian translations of [a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090209.WBwbureaublog20090209203735/WBStory/WBwbureaublog/"]Tolstoy's War and Peace[/a])

Usually people only watch cable news for more than 15mins at a time, so they recycle the same story over and over again.
-same applies to the weather channel and news/weather/traffic time


Morning News shows are only 'newsy' in the first 30mins as that's the time when most people are watching.  They switch to women care at the next hour, because most people still watching at that time are women.

newspapers are written at a 4th grade reading level
 - most people who buy newspapers nowadays are old people looking at the obits
 - and if they're not old, its for the comics and the sudoko, crossword.
 - when using a tabloid format, having nude girls on page 3 makes people actually want to read the entire paper as it gets people to open the paper and see page 2 with the table of contents before of course the topless girl.