If time has taught me anything in this business, or really, if time in the 21st post-invention-of-the-Internet century has taught me anything, it’s that people like to talk. And talk they do, given the fantastically accessible mouthpieces afforded to them via Facebook and Twitter. From the wildly passionate dissent over U.S. Olympic apparel not being made in the USA, to the much-hyped and little-materialized London security concerns, to the most recent #NBCfail debacle, I have to wonder – how did people defuse all this fury when they couldn’t spend hours and hours callously smacking away at the keyboard about how awful everything is?

To dig deeper into the tape-delay conversation, which in most cases does begin as a legitimate discussion, I can understand the frustration of having major Olympic events “spoiled” for you. It’s happened to me about 14 times this week while working on client projects. At the same time, just how catastrophic is it that NBC has “hidden” primetime Olympic coverage from me all day…while I am supposed to be hard at work in the office anyway? Not to mention that with a little legwork, you can get the necessary information from your cable provider to stream the Games live, if you so choose.
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