Paralympic coverage
I just noticed that http://www.athens2004.com has gone through the complete makeover since the completion of the Olympics, and it’s now a Paralympics site. I get happy when I see stuff like that. Compare that against http://www.nbcolympics.com – there’s no sign of coverage of paralympics there. Seeing stuff like this still reminds me of the low awareness of these special events behind the scenes of the parallel major events… It’s not that I’m very knowledgeable about it. I just want to see that people care more than now.
September 16th, 2004 at 10:25 am
I might have been living under a rock lately, but it seems an across the board issue of publicity. I would imagine partof it is money, there doesn’t seem to be as much money available to paralympics as there is to the olympics. But more than that, don’t you think we as consumers (the general we here) express little to no interest in _watching_ these events? Which came first, the lack of consumer interest or the lack of publicity?
September 16th, 2004 at 2:40 pm
There’s no doubt about it that money is an issue – they can’t profit from the coverage of it. And that’s a sign of the lack of interest in the general public. Not really the broadcaster’s fault… I can’t say it well.
September 16th, 2004 at 10:12 pm
me either. I would say life isn’t fair, but it’s silly to state the obvious.