How can we know whether the Chinese Communist Party has succeeded in its propaganda aim for the Beijing Olympics? Ratings are one indication, and NBC’s aren’t great. As Jim and Jack have each recently written , the Olympics are a ratings dud . Another indication is the extreme lengths to which party propagandists have gone to push back against international criticism of the Olympics. Government officials and human-rights advocates, including Elisha Wiesel — the son of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel — have loudly condemned the Beijing Olympics and the human-rights atrocities that they’re intended to whitewash. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial...
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