OLYMPICS COVERAGE: THE AGONY OF DELAY

摘要

On the morning of Sept. 15, I was searching for a lost slipper with The Today Show blaring on the TV when it hit me: It's Friday night in Sydney. Hadn't the Olympic flame been lit for several hours? Turns out, it had. But Today didn't show the colorful parade of athletes streaming into the Olympic stadium or the emotional moment as Aboriginal runner Cathy Freeman took the torch its final paces. That might have distracted from Al Roker's five-day forecast. More important, NBC was saving those dramatic images for its prime-time audience, 12 hours later.