Audacity round #1

So this is our first try at Audacity our media round up post.  And by our, I of course mean me, since know one including the other writers will come within miles of this thing, it’s like we are a child molester and the rest of the internet is an elementary school bus route around us.  Wow, wish I hadn’t written that all of a sudden, I’ll be right back, there’s someone at the door yelling FBI. 

I’ll be right there hold on.

Since the Olympics are the biggest thing going and everyone else is talking about them, today's audacity we will cover NBC’s Olympic converge and then the coverage of their coverage and you can follow us down that little meta rabbit hole.

We’ll of course start out with the best aspect of the Olympic broadcast so far, that picture of Steven Colbert reading cat fancy, the rest of it has completely sucked.  From showing the most important medal events hours after they happen to sticking the hockey on msnbc but having cross-country skiing for an hour and a half in high def on NBC it is completely insane.  Well except for sticking a microphone in the middle of the us snowboard team after White sealed the deal and then having to apologize weakly when his coach told him to “fuck the shit out of the run.”  That almost made it worth it.

Now on to the media on the media.  Dan Levy over at http://onthedlpodcast.com/ had about a half our rant about the Olympic coverage on Thursday that essentially went over the same stuff that I have covered.  The rest of his shows this week were the usual, but still one of the best daily sports shows around.

The guys at talkhoops.net did another excellent show this week, they are probably my favorite podcast.  No talk of the Olympics, but an awesome run down of the NBA trades and the usual mix of bad sex jokes based on animal species, that innocent racism we have grown to love and maybe even a return of the ratard joke.

Finally, the Friday Tony Kornheiser Show was spectacular.  Tony is absolutely the best thing on radio, period.  Kellerman I always thought was a close second, but like usual he is off the air.  Mr. Tony started out with an unbelievable apology to Hannah Storm for ripping her boots she wore a couple days before.  Along with the school girl outfit as seen here.  He then went on to combine this with the Tiger Woods apology, claim he would soon be fired and take the show in a new friendly direction, that would of course make it stink more than ever.  It was truly outstanding.

Tomorrow I’m going to take another chance at the Olympics, watching the men’s hockey on MSNBC if I can even watch hockey in low def, prediction: lot’s of beers make it to low def to follow and I give up and play foosball against Ron.  But only time will tell.