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Olympics conflict of interest news sources (self.olympics)
submitted 4 months ago by confuser to c/[email protected]
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Anyone else feeling like there's a conflict of interest by how it's the job of the news businesses to report things about the Olympics while also being the ones who supply money to the olympics, like theya rent going to want to report bad stuff about it because then it says they are supporting that stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

To use an old cliché, "username checks out"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The IOC actually doesn't even allow most media corporations to broadcast footage (think clips of events) from the Olympics. That's why you usually only see images or interview clips.

[–] confuser 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah because they have an agreement with certain broadcasters to only give their stuff to them as long as the Broadcasters keep giving them money to exist as the IOC Sorry meant to reply sooner, forgot I had sent this lol