{"id":1055,"date":"2008-08-18T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T21:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2008-08-18T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T21:29:04","slug":"media-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Media Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBC’s Olympics color is pathetic, awful. I finally turned The Games off when they announced that an in-depth interview with Michael Phelps’ mother was “coming up”.
\nIf I had seen Debbie Phelps one more time, I think I would have thrown something at the TV.
\nGiven, the woman deserves a point or two for raising her kids, one of whom is the greatest Olympic swimmer in history, on her own (their Dad walked when Michael was seven), but come on<\/em>, she’s not exactly June Cleaver. In fact, it’s been reported that Michael’s sister, who is also a swimmer, took up the sport as a refuge from the yelling.
\nI’m used to the networks making otherwise intelligent people look like incoherent idiots, e.g., CNN’s regrettable lobotomy of political “reporter” Candy Crowley. But poor Bob Costas: his babbling fits right in with the cacophonous chatter of the B bus’s special needs patrons.
\nI don’t know much about Costas except that he’s been a sports reporter for almost 30 years. He could be a bona fide genius, but you’d never know it from the vapid pap he continuously spewed during last week’s interminable filler in between actual events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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