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
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.