{"id":181301,"date":"2016-08-08T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/08\/adding-to-the-list-of-they-who-must-not-be-named-7\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T23:08:00","slug":"adding-to-the-list-of-they-who-must-not-be-named-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/08\/adding-to-the-list-of-they-who-must-not-be-named-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding to the List of They Who Must Not Be Named"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always though that the Olympics was a Petri dish for corruption, violent nationalist tendencies, and egregiously bad “journalism”.<\/p>\n

This year, it appears that NBC has outdone itself in its coverage.<\/p>\n

It’s bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s really<\/a> bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s really<\/a>, really<\/a>, really<\/a> bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seriously, it ain’t good<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m adding the Olympics, and discussions of Olympic coverage to my list of They Who Must Not Be Named<\/span><\/b><\/a>, absent something of Munich level catastrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always though that the Olympics was a Petri dish for corruption, violent nationalist tendencies, and egregiously bad “journalism”. This year, it appears that NBC has outdone itself in its coverage. It’s bad. It’s really bad. It’s really, really, really bad. Seriously, it ain’t good. I’m adding the Olympics, and discussions of Olympic coverage to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1064,1057,1082],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-sports","category-they-who-must-not-be-named"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}