There was not a complaint shortfall coming from watcher of the 2016 Rio Olympics . Media critics and avid fans of individual fun with shorten telecasts let their frustration be known . But there were complaints from the ordinary TV viewer as well . The Vergelooked for those complaints by lodge a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) postulation with the FCC . What they stick back was astonishing .
They note that complaints fall into three basic category . The most serious of which being logical payoff with NBC ’s closed captioning . The other two family were more immanent . They were complaints about the raunchy nature of the Olympics and frustration over the way that TV broadcasts do work in worldwide .
Their report has much more , but here are a couple of the more colorful pick :
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" NBC ’s coverage of the Olympic hatchway ceremonial display legion illustration of people ’s bum for the viewing pleasure on my children 9 and 5 . This seems extremely inappropriate for a recorded program meant to be catch by a oecumenical audience . "
" NBC is holding on-line Olympic videos surety and not making them available to people who can not afford cable / satellite / telephone fellowship entertainment contract . This should be against the police force . It is un - American and hell dust of fascism with the elites withholding information from the rest of US . "
" In today ’s world and what ’s considered amusement it ’s very ruffianly to enjoy wholesome programme as a family , from the heavy rotated intimate content on every computer program to overplayed ED commercials it ’s tough to enjoy a curriculum as a family without being uncomfortable . I thought the Olympic endeavor out last dark would provide us the opportunity as a family unit to enjoy something together . The running and theater outcome are nothing myopic of nonaged pornography and should be rated R to NC17 habiliment that is to tight uncover male genitals is NOT what I had in mind when sitting with my family last dark . Something need to be done . Less photographic camera time and Slow Motion Of These Runners toss Flopping their way accross [ sic ] the finish cable . These athlete should be required to wear out an ahleletic [ sic ] supporter or guard should be put in place by the broadcast medium web to create a more comfortable family well-disposed program "
As they say , one homo ’s spaghetti and meatball is another man ’s tone-beginning on family values .
h / tThe Verge
