2004 Summer Olympics

Mod writes:I think the human race and human experience would suffer if we decided to cancel the Olympics.

dronester writes:What is this? "National Irony Day"?

Mod writes:That was earth humour.

Mod writes:Yes, probably [found it amusing].

Mod writes:That wasn't the only value in the Olympic games - there was all the buildings built, and infrastructure improvements, and the sport itself, of course.

Mod writes:Did you think I'm a fucking moron or something?

Mod writes:I think the human race and human experience would suffer if we decided to cancel the Olympics.

BG writes:My sarcasm was warranted

BG writes:Are you going to give us evidence that the BBC was intentionally breaking the rules under which it operates, or not?

Drone writes:It is theoretically possible the following was an 'accident':

dronester writes:That is a queer question when I had already stated: It is theoretically possible the following was an 'accident':

Drone writes:It is theoretically possible the following was an 'accident':

dronester writes:Your replies seem to imply you want to attack my quoted opinion more than the much bigger issue that the DOW corporation is getting publicity and giving sponsorship to Olympic games that have hypocritically promoted themselves as the greenest Olympic games in history.

Panda writes:If you want to make up some shit, you'll have to do it yourself.

dronester writes:It seems you made up baseless shit yourself.

Hee. Yeah, you're right bluegenes, it was crazy for me to think the Olympic organizers or a major corporate network would actually care about a very, very, very, very, very rich sponsor/client. As if money could somehow be, . . . . gasp, . . . influential or corrupting. What was I thinking?

caffeine writes:Dow is not a sponsor or client of the BBC, though. The BBC doesn't have any sponsors - it's paid for out of public funds.

Link writes:The BBC was forced to reposition cameras in its London 2012 Olympic Park studio, after giving free advertising to controversial official sponsor Dow Chemical in the buildup to Danny Boyle's opening ceremony.BBC production staff had to make the hurried adjustment after a Dow Chemical giant billboard wrap on the outside of the Westfield Stratford shopping centre was clearly visible to viewers through the studio window during the Opening Ceremony Countdown programme on Friday 27 July.They were alerted to the inadvertent gaffe, which breaks the BBC's editorial guidelines, in time to shift the camera positions for the 9am BBC1 Olympics show the following morning, Saturday 28 July."As soon as we became aware that there was undue prominence for a commercial brand within camera shot, we changed the angle of the camera," said a spokesman for the BBC.

Drone writes:Can there be 100% separation between an event that is FULLY corporate sponsored and the media which is covering the corporate sponsored event.

Mod writes:I think the human race and human experience would suffer if we decided to cancel the Olympics.

Strag writes:I do to.

STRAG writes:But most broadcasters embrace or exploit the sponsorship angle whereas the BBc often goes to vaguely ridiculous lengths to try and avoid it.

BG writes:As for corporate sponsorship of the Olympics by DOW or anyone else, I'd do away with it entirely.

Mod writes:I think the human race and human experience would suffer if we decided to cancel the Olympics.

Strag writes:I do to.