“Madison Range” by Mike Cramer, Montana

By Patrickg, 5-24-11

“Madison Range” by Mike Cramer. The Madison Mountain Range stands above Ennis Lake, Montana in early spring. To view more of Mike’s photography, please visit his Flickr photostream.

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Comments

By Jackie Alford, 3-02-10

Bravo Keely, The media is so out to lunch. Jackie

By Jennifer Iverson, 3-03-10

I agree with you Miss Keely! NBC has no "rah-rah" in my books and to listen to the announcers like Bog Costas pretend and indulge about an upcoming ski race when he already knows exactly what happened is no longer even a fantasy; it's a blatant fiction. I would go to live-timing and then listen to announcers later and it made giggle. Now, what do you really believe about the news on NBC if cannot even get the Olympics right. NBC had plenty of time to get ready for this event they should have been more prepared. Congrats on your podium your are an incredible athlete.

By dave, 3-03-10

i agree,,,, nbc is really lame. especially matt lauer the mattress sexual, no i mean metro sexual.

By Adrian, 3-03-10

I too was frustrated with NBC's coverage, but I think it had less to do with them "hating" ski racing, and more to do with them trying to cram everything into the "prime time" slot. They gave what, 15 minutes of coverage to the men's downhill, when earlier in the day, they had showed hours of coverage of some variation of cross country. The irony is that by "saving" the high profile events for their primetime slot, their coverage of those events actually suffered.

But, my biggest complaint: after I realized how dismal their ski coverage was, I thought, "Hey, no problem, I'll just hit the web site and watch it live on streaming". Think again! Their idea of "Live" coverage was the ability to see split times and some blog of someone describing to me what was going on. Insane!

By Tom von Alten, 3-04-10

What in the world?

I watched a lot of the Olympics coverage, via DVR'ing the NBC coverage, mostly the primetime. I saw plenty of ski racing, thanks. And too many Lindsay Vonn replays.

6,000 Facebook fans for a pointless group of whiners? Ah, ok. How many millions of viewers does NBC have? There was plenty to love, a huge technical undertaking to cover it all for people around the world, and all for free (especially if you're able to skip the ads).

Let's move on.

By Ollie, 3-04-10

What I picked up on in NBC's coverage was a reoccurring theme to try and create or fuel contoversy during interviews: US vs Russain figure skaters, US vs US skiers. Even trying to get the Curling team's skip, Shuster, to say soemthing damning or negative was an interview focus... The baiting and digging was unbearable, and far from the spreading of goodwill that the Olympics aims to champion. Come to think of it, it kind of reminds me of most comments on the NewWest site...

By Pati, 3-06-10

I enjoyed watching the Olympics on NBC and appreciated the coverage, but did get weary of the excessive repeats of Lindsey's crash and the super close-ups of her. She's a very pretty, likeable young woman, and the NBC cameras seemed to be in love.

By john Barker, 3-06-10

Great story. Canadian Television does a much better job of coverage of all events. I saw a women's world cup downhill at Lake Louise - top to bottom all racers - live! What is all this conversation of the IOC and women's ski jumping not being an appropriate women's sport for the Olympics! Looks like the membership of the IOC is mostly old guys.

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