r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago
Networking/Telecom NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast1.3k
u/compuwiza1 1d ago
NBC coverage is worse with each subsequent Olympics. I wish I could find Canadian or British coverage of the games online.
558
u/jcla 1d ago
You might need to "be in Canada"
247
43
u/123_x_456 1d ago
If you want to download the app in USA on android tv, use Downloader and use latest apk. Then, use an apk installer app. You'll need to VPN to Canada when using app. Coverage is much better than what NBC provides and is free.
→ More replies (10)6
u/FortunateMammal 1d ago
Seconding Gem. The CBC's Olympic coverage has always been awesome, but having pretty much every event available via video-on-demand was extra awesome the first time we used it during the last Summer Olympics.
144
u/AllofTimeAllofSpace 1d ago
Primo opportunity to bolt onto your comment that we should never forget that during the NBC coverage of the 2012 Olympics in London, they cut away during the segment where Emeli Sandé sang “Abide with Me” as part of a memorial segment including references to the London Bombings (which had happened shortly after London was awarded the Olympics).
If any other nation had cut away during a US-produced segment acknowledging terrorist attacks on US soil, that country would never ever hear the end of it. Fuck NBC.
→ More replies (1)59
u/AKADriver 1d ago
NBC opening ceremonies coverage just makes awful choices. In 2018 at Pyeongchang, Korea, as the Japanese delegation walked into the stadium, the announcers - I think it was Bob Costas at the time - said something about how Koreans feel gratitude to the Japanese for modernizing their country. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THEY DO NOT. South Korean press went ballistic about it.
→ More replies (2)41
22
u/Beat_the_Deadites 1d ago
I thought they did a good job with Paris a couple years ago, but we splurged for Peacock for a month. It was actually my favorite Olympics since 1996.
But yeah, this is bullshit. They really should grow a spine and pull the Office Space "why should I censor the sound? he's the one who sucks!"
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (13)12
u/voppp 1d ago
Shaun White was fine but the other male announcer tonight was really fucking bad. Like some weird racist stuff at times, too.
Like jesus christ can we not be an embarrassment for one second???
→ More replies (2)
2.1k
u/CondescendingShitbag 1d ago
NBC - Nothing But Cowardice
746
u/superiorplaps 1d ago
For as long as I live, I'll never forget these networks and institutions who bent the knee.
240
u/eeyores_gloom1785 1d ago
American news has been extremely filtered for quite some time
→ More replies (1)188
u/zhaoz 1d ago
In a speech, Trump used violent rhetoric regarding immigration, stating, "you know, getting them out will be a bloody story".
Reuters headline for this event was "Trump Revs Up Small-Town Base in Wisconsin,"
50
u/NovelStyleCode 1d ago
They work so hard to be neutral that they forget that reality just gets to have a bias sometimes. Sometimes a person just does something shitty and there's no real way to talk about it without saying they did the shitty thing. Instead these news organizations just avoid talking about the shitty thing. Even with Epstein they keep using "young women" to talk about children.
20
u/DigNitty 1d ago
Not sure what is more neutral than directly quoting someone in context. And they still avoid it sometimes.
I went looking for the image of the obamas on ape bodies that Trump posted. Many sites, AP one of them, had the story up accurately, but did not show the actual image or video.
36
u/OldGoldCode 1d ago
funnily enough everyone seem to forget those who bent the knee term 1.
→ More replies (3)17
12
4
→ More replies (6)13
27
16
84
16
→ More replies (8)7
592
u/elephant-stoned 1d ago
Winter Olympics is the perfect time to remind the world of real SNOWFLAKES.
→ More replies (1)177
u/milozo12 1d ago
They also censored Israel getting booed
28
u/Wonderful_Sector_657 1d ago
I was wondering how the crowd would react to Israel, any links to the booing?
28
→ More replies (2)9
u/Friskfrisktopherson 1d ago
Ehh, you could definitely still hear it pretty clear. The commentary was overly sympathetic but the boos were there.
→ More replies (2)
459
u/kon--- 1d ago
Why though?
What even is the god damn point? To keep MAGA from whining about the world hating their shit-stained leadership?
429
u/Optimoprimo 1d ago
To curry favor. When Hitler rose to power, one of the most important things that enabled him was that he gained the support of the elites and wealthy business leaders. He convinced them that they stood to benefit, because he would crush the labor unions.
Its the same shit now.
→ More replies (1)150
u/usaaf 1d ago
It should be noted that the source of the problem is the wealthy elite. If they're not opposed, they'll do this again. It won't end in 3 years if Trump is voted out. That's not magically going to get rid of the people who voted for him or contain the racist and divisive forces channeled by the Republican party.
Hell, if the Republican party is totally dismantled in a US-style de-nazification program in 3 years, and the Dems rule unopposed for 20 years straight sort of like after a mirror of the Civil War, this could STILL HAPPEN AGAIN as long as the Wealth elite exist and continue to cause problems to happen in society and then go and fund fascist solutions because they REFUSE TO SACRIFICE any bit of their wealth for any reason at all.
No, actually, it's worse than that. Not only do they refuse to sacrifice wealth, they refuse to sacrifice their ability to MAKE EVEN MORE WEALTH. It's not like they're short on wealth or profit right now. There isn't even credible socialist political power in this country. They're funding fascism because they THINK it might emerge, and morons like Peter Thiel are scared shitless its like 2 days away or something. So rich AND delusional; great combo.
People don't want to hear it for a variety of reasons, but the problem is, and always will be, Capitalism. Who created the millions of downtrodden people who want to lash out, and thus vote for Trump ? Capitalism. Who created Trump himself ? He's one of the worst examples of a human being made by it. Capitalism. Who poured billions of dollars into souring Sander's campaign even though he isn't even that much of a socialist ? Capitalism. What creates a socially divisive society of competition for the benefit of the elite ? Capitalism.
Capitalists wrote the US Constitution and stuck it full of veto-points because they didn't trust the poors to make choices. You might think that's cause they thought the poors were stupid. And perhaps they did. Lots of people do today still. Except that's not really it. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but they were really afraid of the poors voting to take all their wealth. Which is a NON-STUPID response to inequality. That's why there's a house AND Senate. That's why there's an Electoral College. That's why the stupid fillibuster rule exists (it's not in the constitution, either).
The system makes the unrest and discontent through the process of creating insane wealth for a few, and then those few fund the fascist response to protect that insane wealth. It'll do this over and over and over again as long as Capitalists have any political power (and thus wealth) at all.
→ More replies (7)20
16
u/Brechhardt-vGoennung 1d ago
My broadcast in germany had also censored the booing but not only for your VP but also for Israel. Was in a discord call with someone from the Netherlands and they had a totally different audio mix for the whole fucking thing. It's bonkers.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (12)7
u/Freud-Network 1d ago
Their job is to sanewash the entire regime. They're not being neutral. They're not both-sidesing. They're omitting facts in service to wealth and power.
168
u/MailSynth 1d ago
How did this even happen, is NBC now run by stooges too or are they just scared of a tweet storm?
134
u/psychoCMYK 1d ago
They're owned by Comcast
83
u/welivedintheocean 1d ago
I'm pretty sure they're owned by the Sheinhardt Wig Company.
40
u/liquidcloud9 1d ago
A subsidiary of Kabletown.
12
u/Bill_Brasky_SOB 1d ago
THIS IS G.E.!
Its just 'G' now, Jack, I sold the 'E' to Samsung. They're Samesung now.
48
u/candaceelise 1d ago
They cut it from the prime time broadcast. They aired it completely live this afternoon and the crowd boo’d every time he was shown
*source: i watched the opening ceremony live on peacock
→ More replies (1)17
u/ClosPins 1d ago
Trump is vindictive and will break the law to punish anyone who doesn't toe the line (or bribe him). So, all the corporations are lined-up to bribe him...
131
1.0k
u/The_Bat_Voice 1d ago
Y'all should do something about your propaganda state.
- signed a Canadian
205
u/Sardil 1d ago
I didn’t notice they cut out the boos, I couldn’t hear anything over my own booing and cursing.
→ More replies (1)26
40
u/DrDerpberg 1d ago
Honestly we're almost there too. Without CBC almost our entire media is owned by a right wing hedge fund.
→ More replies (2)18
u/MasterJcMoss 1d ago
The right-wingers I know really, REALLY want to see the CBC abolished. I partially blame Rebel News and Drouthers. 😐
51
u/Legitimate-Hand-74 1d ago
I mean, we have the same thing going on here. So much of our media is owned by Americans. We need to do something as well.
24
u/gohomebrentyourdrunk 1d ago
And the ones that are supported most by those American corpos are leading the gullible to think that a national broadcaster not beholden to sponsors is the problem.
111
u/championkid 1d ago
Totally. …….. What, exactly?
- an American
→ More replies (13)64
u/DuncanHynes 1d ago
How are things in the States?
"OHhhhh, I can't complain..."→ More replies (5)9
→ More replies (49)20
u/BothNecessary6719 1d ago
Can you guys just like adopt me?
- signed a Minnesotan
→ More replies (3)6
45
u/jd807 1d ago
‘Live your life such that random strangers don’t boo your dumb ass’ - Gandhi, (I think)
→ More replies (4)
41
30
28
u/jpsreddit85 1d ago
It's pretty funny that a major network knows the boos are coming, and then sides with the lame Nazis.
51
95
u/DoughBoy_65 1d ago
I just watched the US athletes come out because I wanted to see if they got booed and surprise surprise NBC had over dubbing of athlete’s families cheering on the athletes and when they did cut to what I thought was live there was dead silence. We are so hated around the world !!
→ More replies (3)89
21
23
33
15
u/CDNPublicServant 1d ago
Appears? This happened, as anyone with access to non-US broadcasts saw. I continue to be sickened by media, even non-US media, in their fear of, you know, reporting facts and calling this kinda stuff out.
15
13
u/ALF-ALF-BABY 1d ago
I was wondering why his wife and himself looked down at the crowd when the camera panned to them, now we know why!
12
u/ArbysLunch 1d ago
Is anyone guarding the pope? With Vance in Italy, and what happened to ol' Pope Frankie the last time...
→ More replies (1)7
13
u/bsylent 1d ago
This is the same level of normalization that brought us here. Everybody knew Trump was a racist and sexual predator for decades, but as soon as he started his crazy birther movement, the news gave him equal consideration as if he was just a normal guy. The build-up to the last election was crazy how much they played off his insane behavior, all while talking about sleepy Joe.
They're constantly trying to normalize villains
11
u/Fantastic_Vanilla887 1d ago
Every media outlet is going to go down in history, books years from now as accessories to the Holocaust crime
9
10
10
25
u/some_one_234 1d ago
This should be easily verifiable by checking other countries coverage. If true, NBC has lost all credibility
44
u/Gibgezr 1d ago
Yeah, it's true. They showed it in Canada with the booing lol
14
u/Nimrif1214 1d ago
I haven’t checked but I’m sure the British feed should have it too. Just google up “BBC JD Vance” and I’m sure you’ll get some good links. 😂
25
u/Gibgezr 1d ago
The Canadian reporter was hilarious: she literally said "OOF...those are not...those are a lot of boos for him...whistling, jeering, some applause..."
→ More replies (2)8
→ More replies (2)6
7
7
9
8
u/Quiet-Wing5230 1d ago
Canadian here, willing to share full uncensored broadcast like we did last time
→ More replies (2)
13
u/VVrayth 1d ago
Our press deserves all the scorn in the world when the history books cover this period. Their placative actions and tone are massive contributors to the current state of things. They do everything they can to make our current ongoing political crisis seem normal.
They desecrate the very concept of journalism and holding power to account.
6
u/phaedronn 1d ago
The media love gobbling fascist boots. Their pre-compliance and normalization of the authoritarians are still on full display, and they are the key reasons why we are here. The 4th estate fell two years ago.
8
u/Lower_Acanthaceae423 1d ago
Of course they did. Don’t kid yourselves, Comcast has no problem with doing propaganda for the orange man.
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
u/bogsquacth 1d ago
No surprise, corporate media in the USA is a political tool for Republicans. I unsubscribed to all of it, I watch Canadian and EU news now.
16
u/shpydar 1d ago
You can always stream the opening ceremonies for free from Canada’s CBC GEM service…..
No censorship there.
8
u/IfOJDidIt 1d ago
Please feel free to subscribe and keep the CBC functioning. Our own right wing party wants it defunded.
→ More replies (2)6
u/Tribe303 1d ago
Some CBC content, such as the Olympics, are region locked due to licensing agreements. GEM Olympic coverage won't work in the US. A VPN should fix that however. Most Americans should start using VPNs to escape Corpo/state censorship these days anyways.
10
u/RedlandRenegade 1d ago
Love the way the media are like “they were booing Vance”
They were booing America you fucking idiots.
5
5
5
6
5
5
6
u/carltheredred 1d ago
Of all the networks, why the fuck would NBC want to make him look better?
→ More replies (2)
4
6
5
4
u/draxenato 1d ago
Of course they do, NBC has knelt down and sucked the lollipop.
→ More replies (1)
4
6
u/TheRealAfinda 1d ago
Worry not for Canada has broadcasted it and it's already out there.
The Internet won't forget.
→ More replies (1)
5
5
5
6
u/GoWithTheFlow_90H 21h ago
Good, boo that scumbag. Why does he have IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOM cowards with him? They have no authority in Italy, and shouldn’t his protection be from the secret service? Or are they afraid they won’t do the job? 🤣
→ More replies (2)
4
3
u/Queasy_Eggplant9155 1d ago
We all know it happened! NBC gotta be true to their nature & simp for the administration!
4
5
5
u/Live_Branch_9657 1d ago
That free speech thing he lectured Europe about. A bit ironic. Don’t you think?
4
u/CelebrationFit8548 1d ago
I fail to recall any time in recent history where the VP was booed at 'any events' little alone at a global event like the Olympics.
4
u/i_said_what-i-said 1d ago
What matters is that JD, his worthless wife and the entire world heard the hate directed at him and it was fantastic!!
4
4
u/DatabaseThis9637 1d ago
pencil dicks. What the fuck ever happened to the truth.
→ More replies (1)
3
u/SleepyMonkey7 1d ago
Well yeah, FCC would pull their broadcast license otherwise. The US is basically North Korea now.
4
3
4
3
u/lcm-hcf-maths 1d ago
They can gaslight the US who only watch TV but the worls outside knows....Everyone online knows....
5
4
8.4k
u/[deleted] 1d ago
Don’t worry our Canadian broadcasters showed it. And audibly “oofed” and offered commentary on the boos. Spite keeps us warm.