Word: report
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...This may go down as the year that viewers finally turned against the sappy human-interest features that supposedly draw non-sports fans into the Games. The profiles perhaps reached their lugubrious peak when NBC covered South Africa's Terence Parkin, a deaf swimmer, in a report that reached new heights of high-school-newspaper-level writing. "What must it be like to swim before thousands of fans and never hear the cheers?" NBC asked. "He'd like to make some noise this week - the kind that everyone can't help but hear." (Later, we heard he would "visually watch...
Thank God for small favors; Parkin would at least never have to hear his treacly tribute. Sure it's unfortunate that "he has never heard his mother's voice" -but it's also true of every other person who's been deaf for life, whereas this inane report acted as though NBC just discovered a shocking new affliction. Memo to NBC: There's already a forum for serving up the mawkish, poorly written and tastelessly directed stories of unfortunate people as entertainment. It's called "Dateline." And "Dateline" does not Olympic-sized ratings...
...Olympic coverage itself is suffering from an excess of fluff that had one Los Angeles Times report dub it "Sports vs. Human Interest Stories During NBC's Olympics...
According to a report by the American Council on Education (ACE), 38 percent of presidents at American research universities in 1998 had served as president of another university immediately prior to assuming their present positions...
...Europe and East Asia. He'd unilaterally shrink the U.S. nuclear arsenal from 6,000 to 1,000 warheads. "This number," Korb insists, "is more than enough to destroy any possible targets and deter any nation contemplating the use of weapons of mass destruction." (Read the full Korb report here, which also features a nifty ever-rising tally showing how much money the Pentagon is spending every second you spend at the site...