Thursday, August 18, 2016

The mystery of Mary Carillo and her wonderful Olympic features

Before the Rio Olympics began, an NBC executive insisted that the Olympics' primarily female audience is "less interested in the result and more interested in the journey." While that is grossly patronizing and sexist, it has not seemed to manifest too much during NBC's prime-time network coverage of the summer games. Those three hours have mostly been filled with competition—with some bios and background, sure, but mostly competition. In fact, it's been so competition-heavy that I've been genuinely, achingly missing one of the best parts of the Olympics: Mary Carillo's feature stories. Read this story »

from reality blurred http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2016/08/where-is-mary-carillo/

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