SMJO wrote:
I'm surprised she didn't bring up the fact that he got engaged to his current wife while his previous girlfriend was pregnant.
I was thinking that before the race, but that interview sure switched a lot of people to his side, me included.
That was despicable TV, made worse by the fact the network had hours to consider whether to use it, and still went ahead with the interview.
Cooper and whoever the producer was should be immediately fired.
I'm not sure how many are old enough to remember, but Cristin Cooper herself is a former Olympic ski racer and won a medal in Sarajevo. This lack of sensitivity coming from a fellow ski racer that has been there (not some hardened journalist type) is particularly disgusting.
Producer in her ear: "Ask him about his brother . . . ask him more, I think I saw his lip quiver . . . there's a tear forming, follow up! follow up! Yes we got it! Promotions and bonuses all around! Next?"
SMJO wrote:
I'm surprised she didn't bring up the fact that he got engaged to his current wife while his previous girlfriend was pregnant.
Is this true?
been sick of this for years wrote:
Maybe when they get rid of her, all the sports channels can get rid of all the "sideline" reporters who do stuff like this on a regular basis to try and get reactions from players and coaches.
Huge waste of time. It's usually the women they get to do this because if a guy did the same thing, they would probably get punched in the face.
Screw that idea!! I'm getting rich off just one interview.
Meh. Any interview that gets people talking is a good interview.
The only one defending the interviewer is Bode Miller.
He knows what it's like to have the whole, deceitful, mainstream media turn on you -- followed by the easily manipulated public (i.e., you guys)
NBC continues to be tone deaf on the subject. Those in charge of the broadcast for the network are sensationalist parasites.
This is big news on FB- does anyone think what she did was right?
Bode is a great athlete- focus on that.
I hate the "human interest" angle and that everything has to be a struggle beyond training and competing.
After calming down and thinking about this, another reason I find this so loathsome is that once again, TV focuses on the "human interest" aspect of story, instead of the sport itself.
They could have asked him any number of questions about the run or his career, but instead went for the soap opera angle.
NBC seems to be good at this... remember the Pete Rose interview from 1999?
So the reporter is despicable, awful, etc. because she made poor Bode cry on TV???
Save your outrage for his offspring, who get to inherit his dysfunctional B.S.
Anyone else remember his embarrassing performances at the 2006 Olympics? Apparently, he thought the U.S. sent him to Torino to drink and PAR-TAY! Spoiled rich kid is right.
Bode is a kwybaby wrote:
So the reporter is despicable, awful, etc. because she made poor Bode cry on TV???
Anyone else remember his embarrassing performances at the 2006 Olympics? Apparently, he thought the U.S. sent him to Torino to drink and PAR-TAY! Spoiled rich kid is right.
That's what most of us thought of him, until that interview.
NBC managed to create empathy for someone who until that point wasn't going to get it.
cvos wrote:
Bode is a kwybaby wrote:So the reporter is despicable, awful, etc. because she made poor Bode cry on TV???
Anyone else remember his embarrassing performances at the 2006 Olympics? Apparently, he thought the U.S. sent him to Torino to drink and PAR-TAY! Spoiled rich kid is right.
That's what most of us thought of him, until that interview.
NBC managed to create empathy for someone who until that point wasn't going to get it.
The damn media created the image of him you don't like.
Stop being so easily manipulated
rich? i think you are off base with that
Please also note that Bode had no problem using his brother's death to obtain sympathy BEFORE the Olympics:
I didn't realize making Bode bawl on TV could actually erase his more than 10 years of douchebaggery.
She is interviewing Bode Miller about his medal, brings up his late brother who just passed recently and she keeps questioning him about it till he breaks down crying.
One question? Fine. Following it up with 3 more questions about it? Trying for a TV reaction.
She is the worst scum of the earth. A real life ****.
He's 36, not exactly a "kid."
When he was a kid, there was no water or electricity in his house. But you're right...
I watched the interview and thought it made me a litlte uncomfortable but thought it was good journalism. Maybe a little too far but I would argue that the OP is probably more off-based thatn the actual interview. The OP called her a **** which I had to edit out.The NY Times has a nice recap of what hapepned. Here's a cliff notes version. The more i re-live what happened. I'm fine with it.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/sports/olympics/nbc-pushes-too-far-in-bringing-bode-miller-to-tears.html?_r=0
Bode is a kwybaby wrote:
“Bode, you’re showing so much emotion down here, what’s going through your mind?”
Maybe the absence of detail in his answer — he said only that it had been “a long struggle coming in here. And, uh, just a tough year” — compelled her to go forward.
“I know you wanted to be here with Chelly experiencing these games; how much does it mean to you to come up with a great performance for him? And was it for him?” she said. Now she was sounding intrusive, and maybe doubting his fraternal inspiration. It was one question too many, at least the way it was phrased. But it pushed Miller into a thoughtful answer — that he did not know if he had won a medal for his brother or to “make myself proud.”
He was holding up, but tears had started to trickle down Miller’s face.
Instead, Cooper forged on, wondering whom he seemed to be talking to when he looked up in the sky before he started his run down the mountain.
“What’s going on there?” she said.
Miller’s helmeted head was bowed and he was unable to answer.
Cooper, a former Olympian who won a silver medal in the giant slalom at the 1984 Games, tried to comfort Miller, putting a hand on his shoulder.
I don't understand why in life we are supposed to just avoicd the obvious questions. In life, someone dies and we are just supposd to ignore it.
The Olympics are storytelling. Miller had already been featured on a sappy profile by Tom Brokaw earlier in the broadcast and on the Olympics where he was profiled as a man who had just married the love of his life basically 5 months after seeing her.
The broadcast then said, "He's here with his two children from other relationships , one of whom is almost one year old."
I was like, "Does the math work?"
A little research reveals the other woman was already pregnant when he met his curernt wife. The whole messy custody battle, the whole fact he's got two children out of wedlock was basically glossed over.
They then take you to the action where his new model, wife is miked for the broadcast. The Miller's clearly agreed to this. You don't get yourself miked if you dono't want to be the media's focus.
You can't have it both ways. Want to be a public figure with tons of endorsements and not expect your private life to be public.
OP, you clearly are uncomfortable with talking about the real, difficult aspects of life. It seems in the year 2014, America thinks the solution is to talk about nothing of substance and just medicate ourselves into oblivion.
I'm sure has plenty of electricity these days. And money--how else is he paying for all the babies he fathers?
Wow, amazing how LetsRunners suddenly have become such a sensitive group of men, so attuned to Bode's pain. What, is seeing a woman make a man cry on TV so disturbing to you that you lose all sense of perspective?
And will someone please explain to me how a family that lives in a log cabin without electricity can afford to buy their kids skis and ski passes? Are you sure Bode's agent didn't lift parts of this story from a biography of Abe Lincoln?