Why did NBC cut out airing the 7/7 tribute..?

NBC should have cut more.

Some of the choices made by Boyle in this opening ceremony seemed a little blinkered by left-leaning bigotry.

Were there really so many black people here during the Industrial Revolution...entrepreneurs and landowners and managers...as portrayed...NO!

Were there so many black doctors her in our fledgling NHS? No...and why show the hospital organisation anyway.

What care could the world have to be entertained by a lecture in how decent Labour were after WW2?

The World wants to see fun and spectacle...joy in sport and inspiration.

The Industrial idea should have been built on.Isambard Kingdom Brunel was perhaps our greatest British designer....There were so many others

Television - John Logie Beard

Tin Can - Peter Durand

Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw

Fax Machine - Alexander Bain

Light bulbs - Humphry Davy, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, James Bowman Lindsay

Wellington Bomber - Barnes Wallis

Spitfire - R J Mitchell

Penicillin - Alexander Fleming

Penny Farthing - James Starley

Periodic Table - John Newlands

Locomotive - Richard Trevithick

Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright

Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown

Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle

Kelvin Scale - Lord William Thomson Kelvin

So much scope

We could have spent all the show on British invention,accompanied by music from Elgar/Eric Coates to the Beatles/Spice Girls/Lulu...and some comedy too and musical comedy from great entertainers such as Ken Dodd,Benny Hill,Norman Wisdom,Tommy Copper and Harry Hill...all in fun and jest towards ourselves.

In the World of sporting endeavour...the 4 minute mile......land speed records.

We were at the forefront of all of this.

Forget 9/11 7/7 and disasters and crime.Forget WW1 & WW2 and wars...this was supposed to inspire in sport...forget the NHS and Dizzy Rascal's sleazy rap.Forget showing Doreen Laurence,the mother of a murdered black boy 19 years ago and the organisation.Liberty,set up to punish the Brits in their own country.

Kate - I might be ignorant and wrong but I'm not a bigot.I listen to sense.If I see sense I will admit I'm wrong.Abuse makes me realise I am not the unlistening bigot.The ceremony should have been about creation...not politics and social engineering.

Just goes to show that you can't believe every POS website out there, that doesn't bother to fact check anything.

I watched the entire ceremony, LIVE, ....and there was NO tribute to "7-7"victims or any mention of them.

Instead, what took place, was indeed a tribute to ALL who did not live to see this Olympics.

The "all" included servicemen and women killed in war, people's mothers and fathers, famous politician's and others of note, AND, yes, victims of 7-7....along with many others....victims of perhaps other horrific crimes and so forth.

It was more along the lines of what the Academy Awards do, when they run the reel of all the actors who have passed within the last year.

These were people, who simply did not live long enough, to see the opening ceremony.

At no point, was 7-7 mentioned or referenced.,,,,except by the photo's, if you recognized one of the 7-7 victims.

Bob Costas is an idiot.......as there have been many tributes to the 1972 massacre......and this was neither the time nor place for yet another. Everyone knows what took place in 1972.....and they've had 40 years of tributes. Enough. Let the past heal, and move on...and opening ceremonies should not be somber , depressing affairs, listing all the dead, and pointing fingers for the tragedies, at an event when the world comes TOGETHER to play as ONE.

Its politically incorrect to keep brining it up at such a moment.

A memorial and tribute WAS held....just not on opening night.

If Bob Costas doesnt like that........well, he can do it anyway he wants, next time HE plans the Olympics.

NBC released a statement saying that they 'tailored' their coverage to the American audience and that it was 'a credit to Danny Boyle' that they didn't have to cut more. It wasn't just a tribute to 7/7 victims though; spectators had been asked to send in photos of loved ones who weren't able to be there. It was a tribute to the dead, really. Saying that they're not forgotten. Even if they weren't all terrorism victims, that's the most sensitive part of the ceremony they could have cut out.

cause the people in NBC are bastards. nothing needed to be edited. I'm glad I watched it online with a proxy, so didn't have to sit through annoying commentary, content edits, and like 25 commercials

Ignore Chris, he's just being an ignorant bigot. All the performers in the show were volunteers, and since that part of London (Hackney) is 40% white british, 30% black, 15% other white, 9% asian, 4% mixed, and 3% chinese or other, of course the show reflected that. London as a whole is very diverse, especially east London