Please Don’t Watch NBC Tonight. Or Any Night.

TechCrunch writes, Spoiler alert: Phelps and Lochte raced today. The results are all over Twitter. But the race won’t air on TV in America until tonight. This is 2012, not 1996. NBC has put all of the events live online, provided you have a cable subscription, but won’t have them available recorded online and won’t air many events, including the most high-profile ones, until a primetime tape delay. This isn’t a new strategy, just a dumb, outdated one. This isn’t just the first social Olympics; it’s the first Olympics where we can see in real time the dysfunction of the...

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