Although the Olympics may be an athletic event they also have political implications if the host country is a dictatorship like China. NBC’s TodayThey failed to recognize the ideological conflict when they supported Ashley Gu, a San Francisco-born woman who is now fighting for communist China. striking advertising deals with luxury brandsTiffany, Louis Vuitton, and others.
Geoffrey Dickens, our Director of Media Analysis, discusses his recent blogs on China and Olympic coverage, especially the failure of ABC and CBS to report on the genocide and torture of the Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province. NBC aired 2 long reports. However, ABC aired only 23 seconds and CBS 53 seconds of the report in 2016. Strangely, NBC ignored China’s brutal one-child policy between 1980 and 2016.
We also discussed the forthcoming hip-hop’s halftime at the Super Bowl, and the obscurity of most of the Best Picture Oscar nods.
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