Basically, channel Seven's Olympics coverage consisted of whatever an Australian happened to be competing in at any given moment in time, particularly if there was a gold medal at stake. All too often that meant we had close-ups of some unfit shooter cleaning their gun for half an hour at a time while Seven periodically flashed up the latest medal tally, while something interesting like the football, handball or gymnastics went ignored. Arseholes.
Anyway, when I read the headline declaring "Websites win right to show Games clips" I thought finally there might be a way to see some real Olympics coverage so I can totally ignore those wankers at Seven and leave our TV switched off for the entire two weeks. No such luck:
Under the agreement, which has been a long time in the making, non-official sites will be allowed to show three minutes of Olympic events a day.
Hoo-fucken-ray. Three minutes? I know that whatever website they appear on, those three minutes will consist of vision of whatever Australian has won the most prestigious gold medal of the day. It got better too- get a load of this:
But they will have to "geoblock" their websites so they cannot be seen by internet users outside Australia.
[...]
Mr Gosper said the IOC reiterated to Beijing Olympic organisers yesterday that the internet must be open and free of censorship during the Games to allow international media to work without restriction.
That's a bit rich, isn't it?
The IOC are a bunch of money-grabbing fucks to whom profit transcends everything- the ideals of the so-called 'Olympic spirit', human rights, even the quality of their own product. I'm not going to watch the Olympics on channel Seven. I'll watch whatever's going on SBS and just read the rest in the print media. I can't be arsed with channel Seven's crappy coverage. Expecting something decent from them this time around is like expecting Paris Hilton to start dressing modestly and stop being a publicity whore.
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