I have to say I agree with Russell Beattie's assessment of NBC's coverage of the Olympics. I thought the coverage of the Winter Games two years ago was great but NBC has really screwed up the Summer Games.

The Olympics are supposed to be a worldwide event and a point of national pride, but NBC has hijacked the games completely and totally, providing little actual quality coverage, funneling viewers to a single channel in order for them choke down their incessant commercials as a way of not just making back their money, or simply profiting, but as a way of maximizing profits from their monopoly on the broadcast rights. What should be a privilege for a national broadcaster has been turned into an extortion racket, holding the Olympics hostage with all of us paying the ransom.

NBC has ruined the Olympics