{"id":315034,"date":"2017-06-29T08:46:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T07:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-being-considerate-of-ones-audience-us-televisions-coverage-of-olympic-and-international-sports\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T08:46:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T07:46:45","slug":"not-being-considerate-of-ones-audience-us-televisions-coverage-of-olympic-and-international-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-being-considerate-of-ones-audience-us-televisions-coverage-of-olympic-and-international-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Being Considerate of One\u2019s Audience: US Television\u2019s Coverage of Olympic and International Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>With the Track and Field World Championship Meet coming up in London in August of this year (these championships are held every other year) it would be good to once again speak about the way track and field is covered in the U.S.\u00a0 Four years ago criticism of NBC for delaying London Olympic coverage till prime time was to be expected as was their delay.\u00a0 Criticism of the surfeit of commentary-as-chatter was also to be as expected as was the inanity of the chatter.\u00a0 And even in establishment and mainstream venues criticism of the exclusionist nationalism of the coverage\u2013decades after it began\u2013emerged, albeit in still much too tepid a form.\u00a0 Frank Bruni, a <em>New York Times<\/em> center-right columnist whose columns are necessarily always within the safe margin of center-right and center surprisingly ventured forth with a criticism of the \u201cjingoism\u201d\u00a0 of the coverage\u00a0 although far more incisive criticisms about this could be found amongst many of the comments upon his column where the common theme consisted of vehement and angry criticisms of the total concentration on American winners or favorites to the exclusion and neglect of the accomplishments of athletes from other countries.\u00a0\u00a0 Nonetheless, rarely do criticisms of the jingoistic, nationalistic, and exclusionary coverage ever constitute themselves in the kind of specificity that can have a chance to escape being a merely generalized condemnation and lament of \u201cneglect of foreign athletes\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 And therefore&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/06\/29\/not-being-considerate-of-ones-audience-us-televisions-coverage-of-olympic-and-international-sports\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Track and Field World Championship Meet coming up in London in August of this year (these championships are held every other year) it would be good to once again speak about the way track and field is covered in the U.S.\u00a0 Four years ago criticism of NBC for delaying London Olympic coverage till [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}