Closing ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics are scheduled for Sunday, and the world ought to mark the second by agreeing by no means to do that once more. No, we don’t imply the Olympic Video games broadly. The place else can followers of snowboarding and rifle capturing get one-stop procuring, so to talk, aside from the quadrennial biathlon? True athletic triumphs might be thrilling.
However not in a police state. As American opponents have been heading to China, the FBI warned them to depart their iPhones at dwelling and as a substitute convey burner telephones, as a method to frustrate the Chinese language surveillance state. NBC, which paid handsomely for the TV and digital rights to the Olympics, declined to ship announcers to Beijing, citing Covid, and viewership has been traditionally low. Some nights have pulled half the viewers of 4 years in the past.
