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[–] 53 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Next, they’re going to only show sports where US athletes win.

Since it’s the Winter Olympics, they’ll start editing to make it look like US athletes win every time. Like in North Korea.

Or, even better. They should show that Trump represents the country in every single discipline and wins.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Next year, The Trump Games. Trump competes in all events and wins them all. No expense spared. No other competitors allowed.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    It would be hilarious to see Trump on skis though, or in pretty much all other olympic disciplines. 'Old man tries not to die on ice' is a show I might watch.

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  • [–] 133 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    Basically all American news is censored and fake now. 

    Anything that could upset the government is removed. 

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  • [+] -96 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    It's not just a matter of upsetting the government. People don't watch the Olympics for politics so I would have edited out the boos too despite having no love for Vance.

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  • [–] 68 points 9 months ago

    The Olympics is literally a competition between countries. Of fucking course it's political!

    More to the point, coverage in other countries did not edit it out. This was uniquely American censorship/spin.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    There was massive cheering when Ukraine entered. Would you have edited that too?

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  • [+] -28 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    No, because I don't think cheering and booing are in the same category here.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Can you explain?

    I don't expect that the cheering for Ukraine was due to their performance in sports.

    If you remove booing because it is political, then political cheering should be in the exact same category.

    The point is, that it is not up to the media to shape reality. Their job is to spread knowledge of it, as it is, not as they want it to be or as some want it to be

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'd say it's like at a graduation. You can clap for a student on stage if you want to, and more popular students will naturally get more clapping, but you're not supposed to boo anyone at all.

    I don't think that broadcasting the Olympics is "spreading knowledge" - the Olympics is a performance, and removing segments where things don't go according to plan is like removing outtakes from a movie.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Same thing Eurovision lied about doing for the apartheid promoting contestant.

    Never trust profit-obsessed media conglomerates to stand up to fascist regimes unless you force them to by ruining profitability.

    IOW: everyone should boycott the Eurovision song contest, NBC, and all companies associated with them in any way.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago
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    ooooh. now im going to be searching for the booing. its great for nbc to let us know it was just that good.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's there a video of this where we can hear them? They were censored completely.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    Someone had an empathic sympathizer to make that call. Poor choice. Our creep of a veep has displayed subhuman views on multiple occasions. He should be treated as an invasive species. Tarred, feathered and vasectomized by a mob. We don’t wish him dead. Just the aforementioned.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions" JD Vance probably

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    "Appears to cut." That's because they cut it.

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    [–] 49 points 9 months ago

    Fuck them. They can have as much of my viewership and brand loyalty as CBS.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago

    Jokes on them. I will buy from the sponsor of that booing.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    Nazi collaborators aka nazis

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Fascists love carefully crafting their “perfect” image.

    What an embarrassment of a man.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    We knew people would boo. He knew people would boo. NBC knew people would boo. We knew they would censor it. He knew they would censor it. They knew they would censor it.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Add this to the giant list of things to fix after the fascist revolution is defeated.

    Companies should not be able to market 'Entertainment news shows' or 'Opinion news shows' as actual fact-based objective reality 'News'. Just like manufacturers can't label peanut butter as 'allergen free', we understand that product labels are important information for a consumer so that they can make informed choices.

    Having TV shows like Fox News being able to pretend to be a real news organization is one of the first weaknesses that was exploited in the media system.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Israel was booed too

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    I was saying Booance

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago