Lots of people are criticizing NBC’s coverage of the Olympics (as evidenced by the popularity of the Twitter hash tag #NBCFail), but when you see a shot fired from the official Twitter account of a rival network’s station in the third largest market…well that’s a rather loud statement.
And what the official tweet from CBS 2 had to say about the NBC editing of the London 2012 Opening ceremonies…well, it’s a very glaring omission on NBC’s part and extremely insensitive:
The tweet:
Why did @NBCOlympics cut @EmeliSande out of their #OpeningCeremony broadcast? #NBCfail https://bit.ly/LYUclF
The story behind it
Yeah I was pretty upset after reading that too.
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