Twitter "Spoils" Olympics News?

Perhaps you didn't know, but NBC is "delaying" certain Olympic events so that they can air them during US prime time. What this means is that Americans who rely on TV as their only source of Olympic coverage find out about exciting wins up to 8 hours after it actually happens. Now unless you happen to be one of the 8 people left in the US who don't use the internet, it's kind of hard to avoid news of the Olympics. Especially if you happened to subscribe to any number of various Twitter'ers who rebroadcast feeds from agencies like CNN, who, for example, broke the news of Phelps 8th Gold when it happened, and not when NBC aired it, eight hours later.

Apparently, some folks are quite upset that the "surprise" was "spoiled" and are complaining mightily. This is like Tivo'ing the Super Bowl and expecting your friends to not talk about it around you until you've watched the game. If you're a fan, then you watch the event as it happens, not when some broadcaster decides to air it. And you certainly don't complain about folks who are reporting on breaking news, just because of some arbitrary money-grab by a broadcaster who'd rather pander to the US's egocentric view of the world as opposed to helping to enlighten millions of Americans that the world doesn't operate on our schedule.

Spoiled babies.

/rant