Thank you, Rojo.
Thank you, Rojo.
Rojo you are an idiot and you know nothing about skiing. Stay out of this thread!
The Bode question that needs to be asked is how did he hit his hot wife with a golf shot? She in the same foursome? Standing where she should not have been? Freakishly horrid shot?
aerafgadfgsadfgs wrote:
She did it the right way for TV, she may look like a scumbag but thats why it sells on TV and its also better for Bode's image to fans. And also everyone remembers Bode Miller being a giant D-bag in 2006, and now everyone will remember him crying for his brother instead, his career obviously ending on that touching note.
She was right in pushing him too, good interviewers do that. Drama sells, you just saw it and are talking about it now and so are a lot of other people as its trending.
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You have one thing partially right. We are talking about "it", but the "it" is not the interview, it's her. She is what we are talking about. We are calling her names and saying she is disgusting.
This is good journalism?
whatajerk wrote:
can u link video of it?
"whatajerk" you are going to object to this video by adding to NBC's page views for it?
GREAT idea.
You realize that you are actually promoting this sort of interview, right?
LetSrunners,I apologize that this thread was deleted.Moderators,Please don't delete this thread. It's one of the biggest topics of the day. Please email me and tell me why you possibly thought this needed to be deleted.My thoughts re-appear below.
rojo wrote:
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=0Bode 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.
well it did
rojo wrote:
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.
OP here rojo.
To imply that you know what I am comfortable talking about, well, you must have psychic powers.
I clearly am uncomfortable talking about the difficult aspects of life? How about this for uncomfortable:
F__k you you little worm.
Difficulty dealing with uncomfortable aspects of life? How many times have you had to deal with a brothers death? Please, give us your first hand knowledge for those who "clearly are uncomfortable with talking about the real, difficult aspects of life".
Tell us what it was like seeing him dead the first time. Tell us about when you walked into the funeral home and saw him. Tell us what it was like picking out the clothes he was going to be buried in. Tell us what you felt when he was being lowered into the ground. What was it like boxing his belongings? What's it like on his birthday and holiday's?
Please, give me your first hand knowledge to talking about the real, difficult aspects of life, since obviously, all of the above hasn't prepared me to deal with anything difficult.
Totally agree. Said the same thing to my wife as we were watching the interview last night.
Her questions had absolutely nothing to do with his performance in the event. IT was yellow journalism and sensationalist television at its finest. Completely unprofessional and I hope this reporter appreciates how classless she conducted herself in the interview.
Yeah, that was seriously disgusting. Just kept pushing, pushing, and pushing, trying to get him to show emotion on national television. Couldn't believe it.
Seems to be diverse opinions. To top it off Miller seems okay with it. That really should end the debate
rojo wrote:
The OP called her a **** which I had to edit out.
What's the point of removing something and then telling us what you removed?
I cannot stand these human interest stories during the Olympic broadcast. I just want to see some competition of rarely broadcast sports.
Bode Miller: gets a woman pregnant, marries and impregnates another woman while the first woman is still pregnant. Gets involved in custody battle before woman #1 kid is even born. Then disagrees with the kid's chosen name and refuses to call him by that name.
A real hero, boys. If Bode's kid has to endure that sort of selfish parental behavior before his first birthday, and thereafter, he will surely be in therapy at an early age. For the sake of the kid, flip a coin and decide on a name.
I do not know the mother's side of the story or if she is just as nuts, but I believe she has whatever right to raise the child as she sees fit if the father decides to marry and impregnate another woman before the other kid is born.
It's a screwed up scenario from any angle.
By the way, Bode Miller has that wife of his under some spell, if nobody has noticed.
Dude, you are way too sensitive. When RoJo said that he believes "you" must be uncomfortably talking about these things, he was referring to "you" in regards to your hypothetical taste for journalism and its techniques, not to you personally. The original post underscored how inappropriate and unprofessional this journalist was, not about the moral implications of awkward questions and implied judgement. At any point Brody could have walked away from the questioning or declined to answer. I think Rojo is supporting and defending bold journalism in contrast too insensitive and sleazy journalism, and in this instance I tend to agree with robby.
Listen up you knunckleheads. I bet none of you is a professional skier let alone could any of you complete a Super G course in under 2 minutes. Until then, you have no right to comment on this story.
Listen, you knuckleheads wrote:
Listen up you knunckleheads. I bet none of you is a professional skier let alone could any of you complete a Super G course in under 2 minutes. Until then, you have no right to comment on this story.
Wow, what a stupid statement.
I'm confused about the outrage at this reporter. Wasn't Bode the one who brought up the subject of his brother before the reporter started asking Bode about his brother? I'm truly confused. Is this not the case?
rojo wrote:
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. ...
I don't think that an interview immediately after a competitor's Olympic competition is supposed to make you, or the athlete uncomfortable.
It's about context, not content .. Sure, in another setting, pushing about something like that might be OK. Even a celebrity, a public figure with tons of endorsements, has a right to some form of boundaries.
The nytimes article you linked completely disagrees with your commentary.
I think she (Christin Cooper) went too far, which we all do at times, and she scr**ed up. I don't think she's a bad person because of it. I thought when I first watched it, she felt awful when he broke down, and her sentiment was genuine. I'm sure she feels she was out of line.
The issue, imo, is the entire corporate policy of making the Games into a soap opera. See Andy Borowitz comments
https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz/photos/a.312831060680.191322.38423635680/10152223435515681/?type=1&theaterIt's not at all simply the interviewer, or even the producer in her ear telling her to push. It's this weird "ogling" that modern media has seemed to lean so heavily toward.
stick with eharmony wrote:
NBC seems to be good at this... remember the Pete Rose interview from 1999?
I've hated Jim Gray since then. I wish Pete Rose had punched that fukker in the face. That's why they con women in to doing those types of ambush interviews now because they know the guys won't go after them.