Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: >A lot of this stuff is known and big messy stories made out of it because >the media are always looking for sensationalism and not the plain old >fashion excitement of the sport! > >Part of this is media money driven only because the world has become one big >back yard of communications and making money! Yep they've all got the >right. I'd be a lot more comfortable with the fakery if I could acknowledge the fact that the olympics has become primarily another means to sell us Stuff That We Don't Need (STWDN) and that the athletes are merely pawns in the marketing game. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com