What in the world is going on in Cleveland???

Didn't the dollar go a lot further back then, too? ;D

 

spnited will love this one. The Huntsville Times has a columnist in Beijing. What it doesn't have any more are Alabama and Auburn beat writers. It now runs copy from Mobile.

 

I'm amazed the natives haven't complained. Loudly.

 

Don't forget the cost of the Olympic trials, too, for anyone who may be at the Games right now.

 

Huntsville: Is there a new top editor there? Maybe he/she will straighten things out.

 

Report on Cleveland public radio this weekend -- PD publisher says ad revenue is worst since Great Depression and more paring is needed:

http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/WCPN/news/13517/

 

Shee-eeeeee-it! I don't see an FDR in this presidential race.

 

Guess we all gotta speak for ourselves on this one. I've seen the Olympics on TV in at least three different restaurants/bars this week, heard people talking about it and know quite a few people -- including non-journos, and including non-sports people -- who are interested in at least some aspect of the Olympics.

And not sure where your local haunts are, but out West ... ain't nobody gettin' their fix straight from NBC. Not when last night's relay race, which I was dying to see and heard about from friends back home immediately afterward ... wasn't shown on TV for more than three damn hours because of the stupid East Coast bias. NBC's pissing off quite a few people out here, with its insistence on showing events live back East but delaying everything here.

Just sayin'. Not everybody's got the same experience.

 

I have to admit, since writing the original post, I've heard a lot of chatter about the Olympios.

On the other hand, what they're getting, they're getting from NBC and the Web (the latter in real time).

Newspapers are doubly hamstrung by the time difference. My local paper had Dara Torres' relay silver on today's sports front -- long after it happened.

So I'm going to change one part to say that a lot of people DO seem to be interested in the Olympics. But I'm not really going to give up much on the second -- they're not going to use their AM papers as their main source of what's getting them excited.

 

amen, bucky, amen.