Olympic organizers on Thursday slammed a South Korean TV station for an unauthorized broadcast of a dress rehearsal for the Games opening ceremony but the network said on Thursday it shot the footage legitimately.
The broadcast by the private SBS network has irked Chinese organizers who had, according to state media, made performers sign confidentiality agreements not to divulge details of the August 8 ceremony.
Read the whole article yourself, but here's another little excerpt:
"We went, and nobody stopped us. So we just shot," a staff reporter at SBS's sports desk said in Seoul.
Many people are rightly upset, to which SBS responded with:
SBS spokesman Park Jae-man said it was regrettable if Beijing Olympics organizers felt offended by the broadcast.
"The purpose of the broadcast was aimed at heightening enthusiasm toward the Beijing Olympics by showing South Korean viewers the magnificence of the opening ceremony, there was no other intention," Park said, adding that his company didn't secretly tape it.
The idiocy and arrogance are staggering. The video seems to have been taken off Youtube and Liveleak, but it just ran on Good Morning America, and is currently available in this article via ABC.
4 comments:
if you believe their actions to be so arrogant why do you encourage further viewing by posting a link to the clip??
I don't really understand your point. It would be incomplete for me to talk about a video but not post where people could see it. I'm not encouraging people to watch it, but instead saving them a few minutes on google by posting the link.
I saw it on CNN too. It's the act of a jerk to video tape the secret practices (which are secret for a good reason: suspense, anticipation, excitement...nothing beats a good surprise!), but it's just downright wrong that the news station thought this was perfectly fine to televise. Could you imagine the scandal if Chinese had done this if the olympics were back here in Korea and they were trying to keep a secret? You can bet there would be (more) daily protests and a HUGE deal. But when it's the Koreans doing the dirty, it's just fine.
Well, maybe not so much outrage if the Chinese were doing it. Remember the torch protests orchestrated in part by the Chinese embassy? No, didn't think so. Within a few days that blew over. Now if the Japanese or Americans had done something like that . . .
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