Our constant media barrage of "China bad" absolutely has that component whether you feel it or not.
Constant? Barrage? I quoted Finnish and Polish coaches/athletes. You in turn have made a declarative statement in hyperbolic, absolutist terms to address what should be an interpretive assessment, i.e. if there's a "bash China" bent in the game's coverage, then to what extent? And I say this because while I haven't watched all that much of it, I honestly haven't felt a "constant barrage" (as you put it) of announcers railing about human rights violations. Granted, there have been calls for NBC (Comcast) to turn up the heat from posturing GOP lawmakers and yes, the WH decided not to send diplomats
(yawn...who've missed them?) but the coverage has not been across-the-board Sino-bashing like you are insisting (whether I feel it or not-ha)
; ). Hell even the not-so-GOP-friendly Wapo's sporting the following headline:
"NBC is nearly mum on China abuses in its wall-to-wall Olympics coverage
The network avoids mentions of diplomatic boycotts, human-rights abuses and questions about the host nation as it seeks to build an audience."https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/02/15/nbc-olympics-china/moving on: US men's hockey-ouch, US woman's hockey silver (congrats Canada although their comely captain Poulin #29 with a dirty Brad Marchandesque knee-to-knee trip). Russia trots out their 15 year old whiz kid skater (on grandpa's heart meds) only to have her blink..
Team ice skating relay races: wtf is this haphazard clusterfuck-on-ice?
