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Meaning that this up-until-now-part-of-the-digital package channel will undoubtedly be put on a pay tier.

Except in Manhattan, NYC, where I anticipate it will be dropped completely.]]>Jul 9th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/09/nbc-lays-out-2008-beijing-olympics-coverage-plans/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/09/nbc-lays-out-2008-beijing-olympics-coverage-plans/Jul 9th 2008 7:05PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/09/nbc-lays-out-2008-beijing-olympics-coverage-plans/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/09/nbc-lays-out-2008-beijing-olympics-coverage-plans/
Plus, the increasing reliance on the pre-made soap operas about the athletes bores me to tears. Most top-notch athletes are obsessive jerks. The less I know about them, the greater the chance I might actually root for them.

And with the totalitarian-loving IOC putting the Olympics back in a nasty dictatorship again, I'm not really in the mood for a giant NBC-run Chicom love-fest. How many stories will they run about the wonders of the People's Liberation Army's earthquake relief efforts? And how friendly those Chinese cops are -- at least when no nasty Tibetans or freedom-loving Chinese protesters are around?

I can't even get excited about Phelps either -- the new swimming suits render any new world records as meaningless inflation.

Unless there's another Tienamen Square beatdown or the pollution starts killing tourists and athletes by the hundreds, I won't watch anything with one exception. The marathons might be entertaining just to watch runners bleeding from their lungs in the second half of the run.

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