You don't need a meter to detect the inanity of NBC's Olympics and other sports coverage. Just a pair of ears and an interest in the sport involved -- which their commentators typically are lacking.

But NBC is outdoing itself with the Olympics. The other night there was a woman's swim heat and one of the competitors was named "Miley". That caused the NBC commentator to completely ignore what was happening on screen and go off on a riff about Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana. If you made up stuff like this in a novel, people would say it was too unbelievable!