West Coast Inequities

The Olympics are tape-delayed so that most people can watch the competition comfortably after work in their time zone but important things like the Democratic National Convention are broadcast live throughout the nation. The Convention is timed so that those people on the East Coast and Midwest can watch the convention when they are home from work but those of us on the West Coast miss all of it because we are still at work. Something's not right here. Another reason that I may eventually breakdown and get cable and TiVo. Or, another, more, cynical person would think that the satellite and cable companies encourage this inequity so that people like me, resistant to the allure of additional crappy TV stations, will eventually break.