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The tension were seeing in the London Games — the NBC backlash, the cord-cutters anger — may seem like a matter of television versus the Internet, of established medium versus upstart. But its also a tension of time: a matter of the new alchemy between the immediate and the evergreen. NBC is treating the Olympics as entertainment; the Olympics, however, is also a news event. Much of its entertainment value derives, directly, from the information value of its individual events. The Internet is the ultimate spoiler, and TVs time-delayed production allows it ample space to do its spoiling.
via In Defense of NBC: There Are Two Olympics – Megan Garber – The Atlantic.
