TNT’s Daytona Coverage Was More Ads Than Race

July 6, 2009 by Nascar Motor Racing  
Filed under Nascar News

Watching TNT’s coverage of the Nascar race from Daytona Beach, Fla., with friends and family on July 4, soneone in the group said the uninterrupted barrage of advertising throughout the broadcast was “like Jean-Paul Sartre’s vision of Hell in his play, ‘No Exit.’”Even one of the wildest finishes in Nascar’s storied history of flaming, upside-down, multicar, I-don’t-believe-what-I-just-saw melees could not redeem TNT’s construct of Purgatory.I have commented in this space before about the quality