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Strange scenes from Channel 9 who are copping widespread criticism for their disastrous handling of the Olympics while their journalists are on strike after the bosses were sure they don’t need to pay the journos properly.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey now, NBC has proven that you can fuck up the Olympics even when you're paying a buttload of people.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, for example-

We interrupt this post to bring you a sob story about the athlete's backstory instead of the olympic sports competition you wanted to see.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

What's that you wanted to see the men's archery competition? Nah fuck that let's see what Keenan Thompson has to say for no reason whatsoever.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

In the middle of the match. You weren't watching that anyway right?

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

When asked whether he thought the Australian Olympic team had lied to organisers about their nuclear powered choice of transport down the Seine, Macron responded, "I don't think, I know!"

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh that headline had so much more potential than the article actually delivered on. They could have also tied it in to the French Olympic organisers' stuff ups.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

Oh that headline had so much more potential than the article actually delivered on.

For better or worse, a lot of these types of posts are like that 😅