Media

I've chatted with a couple people who say they have Olympics fatigue: That after a week of watching the Olympics every night, they've tired of it. I can understand it. The first week was so extravagant with the opening ceremony, and so dramatic with Phelps' chase, that this week has so far seemed a bit […]

Just a little note that I'll be a guest on the Derek & Romaine Show on Sirius OutQ Channel 109 Monday night from 7:15pm-8pmET. If you haven't heard it before, it's a great show, very fun. We'll be talking Olympics for the hour, I'm sure focusing on gymnastics, diving, swimming, track & field, and yes, […]

Most every Olympic Games becomes known by a dominant storyline — the return of the event to its historic roots in the 2004 Athens Games, the first post-Cold War Games in 1992 in Barcelona, the first commercially televised Summer Games in 1960 in Rome. What will become the storyline of the Beijing Games? The Smog […]

If you can’t get enough of sports, jocks and punditry about them, ESPN has just the thing. The all-sports network this morning launched a six-hour daytime version of “SportsCenter,” anchored by Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott (photo). I’ve always wondered why, in this age of 24/7 media outlets, ESPN always ran “SportsCenter” repeats the next […]

Every two years, we’re blessed here at Outsports with a flood of traffic during the Olympics, and this year is no different. It’s great to see so many gays and everyone else taking such an interest in sports; and other gay sites are getting in on the act. Over at AfterElton, Jim and I wrote […]

For anyone who wondered about American interest in the Beijing Games: For anyone who wondered about American interest in the Beijing Games:

Google always gets theirs. The company’s YouTube unit will get a sliver of the Olympic pie, getting about three hours a day of exclusive content after striking a deal with the International Olympic Committee. Just when you thought NBC’s $894 million broadcasting deal was enough. Don’t fret, interested viewer. The YouTube content, including highlight reels […]

I just love the Olympics. If nothing else, it provides a distraction to media outlets who’ve been hyperventilating all summer about the presidential race, high gas prices or how California is burning, quaking or destroying the sanctity of marriage. Now there’s this: No more Ferret Olympics, Olympets, Raw Olympics (not what you might think), the […]

A little poetic justice in the land of tightly controlled media. On a day that saw journalists reeling from the news that the IOC and Chinese authorities had misled them about the censoring of access to certain web sites, a South Korean broadcaster leaked footage of a secret and heavily guarded rehearsal of the Opening […]

More evidence that Chinese authorities don’t like Amnesty International, the BBC or journalists. Big surprise. Some 20,000 journalists are flowing into China to cover the Olympics and some of them are cranky that China is back-tracking on its pledge of “absolutely no censorship on the Internet” for media covering the games. As if this should […]

The Chinese have reneged on a promise to keep the Internet uncensored for journalists, throwing a giant middle finger to the world's media: The Chinese have reneged on a promise to keep the Internet uncensored for journalists, throwing a giant middle finger to the world’s media:

The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2008 were announced today. The journalism categories include Public Service, Breaking News Reporting, Investigative Reporting, Explanatory Reporting, Local Reporting, National Reporting, International Reporting, Feature Writing, Commentary, Criticism, Editorial Writing, Editorial Cartooning, Breaking News Photography and Feature Photography. Something is missing. Why aren't Pulitzers awarded for sports? Surely there's plenty of […]

This afternoon, I took a few minutes to watch ESPN’s “pre-game analysis” of the Breeders Cup. After that, it was back to the live coverage of the fires, where I’ve been glued. It was eerie to see the lurid red sunlight moving across on my media-room wall. Here in central Los Angeles, in that cloudless […]