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Gold Medal Media
Not all of the cultural upheaval from this year's Olympic games has been limited to the pharmaceutical department. If you turn down the volume on network television coverage, you might notice Venus and Serena Williams' debut as the first non-bourgeois tennis gold medallists. And followers of women's pole vaulting can witness, for the first time, an audience openly indulging in female-athlete ogling, as the host country collectively appreciates the posterior of Tatiana Grigorieva.
It's a shame that the most intriguing facets of these Olympics pass by without meaningful comment and contextualization. Part Two of our Summer Games report shows that the absence of penetrating analysis is no accident. This international gathering is a business with an agenda, one that supercedes even the hawking of wares between leaps, runs and dives. Only every four summers do the twin opiates of sports and nationalism coalesce like this.
— Donnell Alexander and Elinor Nauen, editors (editor@mediachannel.org).
Olympics Special Part I: Sex, Race and Sports
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Australia After Dark
The 2000 Feelgood Olympics have a less-than-benevolent underside that the mainstream media are ignoring, writes Nadya Stani from Sydney. Depth is the first sacrifice when media are submerged in nationalism and obsession with sport. From The Media Channel, September 27 2000
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Justice, Not Gestures
Newspapers and TV draped their coverage of the opening ceremonies in superlatives that became hyperbole. Kim Bullimore contends it will take more than symbolic depictions of black and white together to repair racism's wound. From Green Left Weekly, September 27 2000
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Holy IOC
British journalist Andrew Jennings, author of "The New Lords of the Rings: Olympic Corruption and How to Buy Gold Medals," writes that the Catholic Church may well treat International Olympic boss Juan Antonio Sammarach with even greater reverence than NBC does. From Salon.com, February 19 1998
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Toxic Media
When Sydney's bid to win the 2000 Olympics heated up, so did media self-censorship. Civil engineer Sharon Beder describes the fate of an article she wrote on the toxic waste site where authorities planned to locate the Games. From Center for Media & Democracy,
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Nike's Downward Slide
The company insists sports shouldn't have boundaries. Or integrity, apparently, writes Jim Hightower. Last Winter Games, Nike further eroded the line between event and advertising when it manufactured a corporate version of the Jamaican bobsled team. From AlterNet/Independent Media Institute, March 6 1998
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