Word: olympicsized
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As a security professional, the latest news that security guard Richard Jewell is the prime suspect in the bombing of the Olympics breaks my heart. I lived in Atlanta and Savannah for more than 10 years, prior to moving here.
NBC has done very well. Prime-time ratings for its first full week of coverage were 23% higher than they were for the Barcelona Games, and the network pulled in as much as $500,000 for a 30-sec. spot. But the network didn't need to go so soft...
The Olympics are appealing to women not because of hokey scenes of swimmer Amanda Beard cuddling a teddy bear but rather because they used to be a pure communal event--of which there are so few--with moments of real sentiment and real heroism instead of the Oprah kind. They...
Thus the concussion passes through the medium of media. The accidental video's evil instant becomes a sudden, globally repeated icon, replayed insistently until it erases the 1996 Olympics' prior signature of celebration and courage, the image of a young gymnast performing through her pain. In a split second, the...
But the medium of the media is a global saturation and does not grant moral exemptions. The Atlanta bomb has now caused the electronic atmosphere to buzz in the mind in an unpleasant way. The gaudily hyped Olympics were suddenly overcome by their media countershadow--so that the brightness now...