My fellow Americans, The spoilers are NBC's fault.

[slampoet]

There is a world out there and all of its networks still function despite NBC's decision to tape delay everything even though all the events are happening between 4am and 8pm EST.



ANY person wanting to avoid spoilers will either need to watch the live streams from the BBC and other networks http://tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=3

OR

They will have to avoid all news websites, all non-NBC news Television and radio and avoid some newspapers too! So many websites post Olympic results right to their front pages right as they happen.




I for one find it irresponsible to avoid the news for that long in an election year and am starting to wonder if this NBC delay is being done on purpose for some of the side effects like this.

Sure it is rude to post results here on DU, but the fact is this forum is the LEAST of your problems if you want to avoid hearing about the results before NBC decides to broadcast its spotty highly edited coverage up to 18 hours late.

When you combine that with the Racist, Cold War oriented, commentary from Bob Costas, Matt Lauer, and Meredith Viera, ....it is easy to see that abandoning this out-of-time-against-nature-delay is not only the solution for the conscientious liberal, it is the solution that the world market is presenting to you the viewer when presented with a defective product produced by the NBC monopoly on US TV.


There are 64 different nations where the Olympics is being broadcast by You Tube and they have better access to live events than NBC.

Let's not drag down DU to the scummy level of NBC. It isn't our job to enforce their monopoly for them.

Direct your anger at NBC's bad behavior, not at the will of news to be free.

I watched the some of the Dressage competition and i bet that NBC won't even broadcast it which is a shame considering how much shilling they did for Romney in the opening ceremonies.

[MADem]

1. Or just get your news from DU, where spoilers are not allowed. nt

[TahitiNut]

2. NBC is merely saving us all the expense of Tivo

[malaise]

3. While that is true

we can still put Spoiler in the title

[marble falls]

4. Sounds fair enough for me.

[harmonicon]

6. "Spoilers" don't exist for live events.

If someone chooses to watch a recorded sporting event, it's already happened, no matter where you are in the world, and no matter how much you'd like to pretend otherwise.

[joeybee12]

8. Yes, they do...some people work and dvr an event...

They can log onto DU at work, but want to avoid knowing results later...it's common courtesy to put spoiler in the tag line.

[harmonicon]

20. No, it's not like a movie.

It's sports. There aren't spoilers in sports. The entire point is that it's live. If you want to avoid knowing the outcome, avoid places where that would be posted. Avoid news sites, for one. DU contains lots of news.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Are you saying "You like firing them?"

JK....think you have excellent points!

[nenagh]

7. Thank you... love it...

Link works here in Ontario..

[valerief]

9. Well said! nt

[INdemo]

10. After NBCs morning interview with Rmoney and taking down negative

topic headines on their site Friday its obvious they arent trying to hide their support for Romney and wil twist and turn any story to
make it look positve for this phony.. Thinking back trying to remember but dont think it was this obvious with GW was it?
Oh ya..just remembered ,yes it was

Just compare topic headlines about the same subjects..
http://current.com/ vs http://www.nbcnews.com/

" Hal Sparks on Romney’s foreign policy dream team having ‘war with Iran written all over it’ "
vs
"Mitt Romney would 'respect' Israel strike on Iran, aide says"

Just saying'..what a mouth piece for Rmoney....Found this interesting

Then on NBC site headlines read as if Doctor Shortage the fault of the new Health Care Bill taking affect..


"Doctor shortage may worsen with health care law"
(I know nothing to do with olympic coverage but for someone just reading the headline its all Obama's fault.)

[Carolina]

11. "dont think it was this obvious with GW was it?"

Yes, it was.

When the DUI stories on both Shrub and the Dick broke, Matt Lauer and Katie what's her face both questioned the source (and motives of such source) of the stories rather than the fact that the stories were true! By contrast, with Al Gore, it was all negative, all the time. Also NBC was run by Jack Welch at the time and Welch just happened to be one the Bush 100! And NBC, which employed a Bush cousin, was 2nd, after FUX, to call the race for GW.

That's when I turned off TODAY, NBC and network news in general.

[Carolina]

14. Doctor shortage has been an impending problem for years

see www.aamc.org on the need to train more. This has nothing to do with ACA and more to do with greying of the current MD population, i.e. they're getting old and retiring, or some are abandoning specific fields because of malpractice costs or the bureaucracy of HMOs/ managed care (all of which preceded Obama's presidency).

To address this issue some medical schools are expanding class size and new medical schools are being created BUT medical school students are also taught by medical school graduates in training programs to become practicing MDs. You don't want someone fresh out of school treating your gunshot wound. Many training programs (i.e. residencies) are supported by government money from Medicaid and Medicare which, as we all know, repukes have always been against and undercut. Anything worthy requires investment of dollars and that would certainly include the clinical education of medical students which is tied to the post-graduate training of doctors.

I loathe NBC (nothing but crap)

[INdemo]

15. I agree but my thinking was the way the headline read the

shortage was a result of the ACA. For someone that would have just read the headline they could have gotten that impression
..I thought this is where the article was going until I read the story.

[underpants]

12. NBC is still operating in a 1996 world and Ebersol's model

Sorry that you signed up for an Olympics that is 6 hours ahead of east coast time but you did.

BTW - Rio will be 1 hour ahead.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. I think 'spoiler' in the subject line is a courtesty, but I could not belive it yesterday when

Du was freaking out about 'spoilers' when the events were live and finished and the complaint should be with NBC for showing the events long after they are finished.
A discussion site that has a tizzy about that but allows bigotry and lies is a farce which deserves to have it's wee dramas 'spoiled'.
I have actual humans I know at events, including the Dressage events. I will make damn sure I post no information here, no matter how how interesting. I'd just hate to 'spoil' a long finished contest by mentioning what Mitt did or something. DU can continue to take in the Olympics like good, Corporate Americans, seeing it when NBC tells them they can see it....

[pintobean]

16. "They will have to avoid all news websites"

[slampoet]

17. What a great way to avoid learning anything by mistake.

[pintobean]

18. I don't think

there's any sports news I really need to know. I find the whole premise of the OP amusing. Missing a couple of weeks of news isn't likely to change any DUers' minds, or their vote. If there's any news that big, it will filter through.

[Avalux]

19. Did you stay up all night thinking of a rationale to justify posting Olympic spoilers on DU?

Lecturing us about gives me a chuckle. I was able to avoid real time news about who won the Lochte/Phelps swimming event until I logged in to DU and saw the results in a post's subject line (no way to avoid it). I've been posting on DU for 10 years and thought at least here, people would be courteous enough to refrain from doing this.

I honestly don't get the point of your post; calling people who avoid the news "for that long" as irresponsible. And I certainly don't get your weak justification that by not posting spoilers (did you read Skinner's post?) DU is scummy akin to NBC.

[harmonicon]

21. A lot of people on DU get their information from places other than NBC.

I've got the Olympics live in the background right now. I'm not going to avoid discussing what I want to discuss because other people have decided to be beholden to a US television network. That's the really ridiculous idea.

[Sirveri]

22. It's just sports. It means NOTHING. It has zero relevance to anything important.

This countries fascination with grown men in tights climbing on each other is really strange.