‘Who Are We to Criticize’: Olympics Media Coverage Treats China with Kid Gloves

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Activists protest against the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 4, 2022.

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Welcome back to “Forgotten Fact-Checks,” a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we take a look at the media’s failure to strongly reject China’s human-rights abuses, highlight a distasteful Washington Post column, and hit more media misses.

Media Fail to Rise to the Moment on Beijing Olympics

Brittany Bernstein

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Brittany Bernstein

Brittany Bernstein is the deputy news editor of National Review Online.

Isaac Schorr

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Isaac Schorr

Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.

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