OK, lets get rid of the corporate sponsors, and charge £1000 per ticket instead. No, let tax payers in the host country pay more for the event, because as every Brit knows, we are not paying enough as a country, are we? Or lets sell exclusive rights, and then renege on the exclusivity part.
How do people think this all gets paid for? Already the games cost the UK more than double the original estimates. Business subsidises the games, to get exclusivity. Not only that, inside that actual games they have zero presence. So of course they will protect what little they bought. And yes, it is little. Look at the corporate graffiti over ever other sports events, like the football world cup. There is none what so ever with in the Olympic events themselves.
I read here many people being reasonable about facebook and craigs list protecting their assets, but the Olympics cant? How is that? Who can afford the complete costs of the event with out the money of the corporations? Must it be a "socialist" paid for by taxes Olympics alone? Is that what people are saying. Olympic spirit? Well, that costs money.
Choice people, take the corporate money, or your government and the fans pay. Choose. But if you want the corporate subsidy, don't complain about it afterwards.
Or should the Olympics be play out in a field in the middle of nowhere so that no one can watch it at all? The only other way this works is if the UN pays for it, or something equally stupid.
It simple: its a very, very expensive event which happens every 4 years. It needs corporate money to fund it, or no country, other than a super power, can afford it. It has to be exclusive, or there is nothing what so ever in it for the sponsors with out that exclusivity. That exclusivity has to be protected, or no deal.
Do I like that? No. Do I like the fact that most of the big sponsors are not British? No. But guys, lets be real, the money has to come form somewhere.
There is sponsorship and there is selling our liberty.
While the games are great and fun and all that, that the government sold the right to say the words 'Olympics' or 'Gold' is a total disgrace. How was that even legal?
This should never have been allowed to happen nor should it ever be allowed to happen again.
Although it is quite funny to hear the commercial radio stations constantly refer to them as the 'summer of games' and accidentally slip up now and then.
If it needs corporate money why is it still costing London 625m from tax bills and 1.5bn from lottery funds? Only 80% of the revenue from the IOC goes to the city. So the public spends on new stadia demanded by the IOC, does not recover their total expenses, AND loses the freedom to write "London 2012" or to sell chips without the fish.
Articles like this one just highlight the actions that are taken in order to obtain the money, so the public (especially the public in cities considering an Olympic bid in the future) can evaluate whether it's worth the price.
I would encourage any city I live in not to bother with an Olympic bid - between the trademark police, increased security, decreased tourism, and little stuff like this, it hardly seems worth it. You may disagree. But it's good for us both to know about stuff like this, so we can make an informed decision.
There is sponsorship and then there is instituting a ban on selling chips and using personal wifi.
One does not need to follow from the other.
This level of exclusivity is not something that should even be on the table to purchase, as aspects of daily life such as the choice of food in London and the permission for people who live there to use their own legal devices for the purpose for which they were designed, is not the government's property to sell unless we regard ourselves as nothing better than serfs.
Brilliantly put. There's selling exclusive sponsorship and then there's purchasing legislation to exclude other vendors. That is absolutely unacceptable, and is orders of magnitude worse than what Craigslist is doing, which people still have the option of not using.
How do people think this all gets paid for? Already the games cost the UK more than double the original estimates. Business subsidises the games, to get exclusivity. Not only that, inside that actual games they have zero presence. So of course they will protect what little they bought. And yes, it is little. Look at the corporate graffiti over ever other sports events, like the football world cup. There is none what so ever with in the Olympic events themselves.
I read here many people being reasonable about facebook and craigs list protecting their assets, but the Olympics cant? How is that? Who can afford the complete costs of the event with out the money of the corporations? Must it be a "socialist" paid for by taxes Olympics alone? Is that what people are saying. Olympic spirit? Well, that costs money.
Choice people, take the corporate money, or your government and the fans pay. Choose. But if you want the corporate subsidy, don't complain about it afterwards.
Or should the Olympics be play out in a field in the middle of nowhere so that no one can watch it at all? The only other way this works is if the UN pays for it, or something equally stupid.
It simple: its a very, very expensive event which happens every 4 years. It needs corporate money to fund it, or no country, other than a super power, can afford it. It has to be exclusive, or there is nothing what so ever in it for the sponsors with out that exclusivity. That exclusivity has to be protected, or no deal.
Do I like that? No. Do I like the fact that most of the big sponsors are not British? No. But guys, lets be real, the money has to come form somewhere.