Not To Be Seen
http://www.indi.ca/2008/08/not-to-be-seen/ (www.indi.ca)
published: 2008-08-09 05:40:25 ( 5 months ago )fetched: 2008-08-09 07:15:23 ( 5 months ago )
I was working late on the 808, but we all stopped what we were doing to watch bits of the Olympic Ceremony. It - like most rituals - is a bit dull, but there is a nice feeling of, say, communion as you realize that one billion people are watching together. Which is why I found the next headline online odd. Apparently, Americans couldn't participate at all because NBC wanted to show the ceremony at prime time, for better ad space, so they delayed it by 12 hours. And then their staff went around trying to [ ... ]
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