A good piece of meta-reporting...
Aug. 16th, 2008 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
... by ESPN's Richard Lapchick on the efforts of Red China to dictate the coverage of the Olympics and protest surrounding the Communist government's human rights violations.
I feel *very* guilty even taking peeks at the coverage - China does bald-facedly what the neocons running the U.S. government would like to do. But this is a good antidote, and hopefully English-reading people interested in the Olympics will use this article to connect this year's Beijing Olympics with Hitler's Berlin Olympics of 1936.
I feel *very* guilty even taking peeks at the coverage - China does bald-facedly what the neocons running the U.S. government would like to do. But this is a good antidote, and hopefully English-reading people interested in the Olympics will use this article to connect this year's Beijing Olympics with Hitler's Berlin Olympics of 1936.