The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
It’s not just a matter of upsetting the government. People don’t watch the Olympics for politics so I would have edited out the boos too despite having no love for Vance.
I don’t expect that the cheering for Ukraine was due to their performance in sports.
If you remove booing because it is political, then political cheering should be in the exact same category.
The point is, that it is not up to the media to shape reality. Their job is to spread knowledge of it, as it is, not as they want it to be or as some want it to be
I’d say it’s like at a graduation. You can clap for a student on stage if you want to, and more popular students will naturally get more clapping, but you’re not supposed to boo anyone at all.
I don’t think that broadcasting the Olympics is “spreading knowledge” - the Olympics is a performance, and removing segments where things don’t go according to plan is like removing outtakes from a movie.
Basically all American news is censored and fake now.
Anything that could upset the government is removed.
I feel I need to speak out on behalf of smaller, independent outlets that still do real work in the USA. I listen to a few podcasts myself.
That’s fair, the large and billionaire owned news os bad though, and that’s all the mainstream ones.
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It’s almost* never a good sign when a German term has an English Wikipedia page.
* notable exception: Rechtsstaat
It’s not just a matter of upsetting the government. People don’t watch the Olympics for politics so I would have edited out the boos too despite having no love for Vance.
The Olympics is literally a competition between countries. Of fucking course it’s political!
More to the point, coverage in other countries did not edit it out. This was uniquely American censorship/spin.
Americans shoehorned politics on everything.
But suddenly, when something can upset the egomaniac pedofile in charge, “not everything has to be about politics”.
Go back to your hole, we don’t like your kind here.
There was massive cheering when Ukraine entered. Would you have edited that too?
No, because I don’t think cheering and booing are in the same category here.
Can you explain?
I don’t expect that the cheering for Ukraine was due to their performance in sports.
If you remove booing because it is political, then political cheering should be in the exact same category.
The point is, that it is not up to the media to shape reality. Their job is to spread knowledge of it, as it is, not as they want it to be or as some want it to be
I’d say it’s like at a graduation. You can clap for a student on stage if you want to, and more popular students will naturally get more clapping, but you’re not supposed to boo anyone at all.
I don’t think that broadcasting the Olympics is “spreading knowledge” - the Olympics is a performance, and removing segments where things don’t go according to plan is like removing outtakes from a movie.
I won’t even try to discuss this with you sorry.
Thank you for your concern, but I have thick enough skin to handle some booing.
Everything is politics.
People don’t watch the Olympics for politics, but this is news. They should cover it unless they are no longer unbiased.