Colin Upton Versus The Olympics

The Vancouver-based cartoonist Colin Upton is doing a series of panels on his feelings towards the forthcoming Winter Olympics to be held in and around the city in February. Mr. Upton is not pleased by the city's single-minded focus, the expenditures on sports infrastructure, and the subtle shifting of priorities to reflect the huge money drain that can come with a modern Olympics. The panels start here and continue here. In part because of a down economy that won't allow for a ridiculous surge of last-minute ads even if a superstar performer were to emerge (NBC sold $100 million more ads during Michael Phelps mania at the last summer event to put those games in the black for the network), and in part because the numbers have gotten so huge as to not make sense anymore, several participants including the television networks are expected to lose money on next month's broadcasts.
 
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