Although I’m generally a ‘Today’ show loyalist, for the next two weeks, I’m going to be a ‘Good Morning America’ fan.
Why? Three words: The Winter Olympics.
Every two years, since NBC started carrying the Olympics, they turn their top-rated morning news show into essentially the Games’ morning recap show. Sure, you still get that first half hour of pure news, but after that, the show becomes all-Olympics, all the time, from examining the personal stories of the athletes, to travelogues about whatever exotic locale the Games are in that year, to deep, ‘SportsCenter’-like examination of the previous night’s results.
But that’s not the part that annoys me the most. When the hosts go out and try to do the Olympic sports themselves, the cringe factor goes up exponentially. Especially when Matt Lauer and Al Roker are involved.
Continue reading And So It Begins: ‘Today’s’ Annoying Olympics Coverage
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