Here is a small but real gripe I am starting to have. I have noticed twice now NBC anchors "reporting" on the "tweets" of celebrities about the Olympics as if they were news. Today the news was the Christie Brinkley had Olympic fever, and Tom Hanks was a superfan of the US women's soccer team. Is this a thing now? I guess if a public person announced something on Twitter that was actually newsworthy it would be one thing - perhaps if Christie Brinkley had said she was against having black athletes on the US gymnastics and swim teams because that sent a bad message to the world, maybe that would be news (though even so, who cares what Christie Brinkley thinks about the Olympics?). Marginally, if Brinkley was actually in London attending the games, I could see NBC inviting her into the studio to talk about why she is such a big fan. But no, I don't want segments rounding up for me what generic cliches celebrities are saying about the Olympics.
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