In my podcast On the Media, I discuss whether online
media slandering the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games by circulating negative coverage on
Russia’s inner political and business affairs. I present online articles I have
found on online newspapers, magazines and new sites which cover topics of the
LGBT law established in Russia last June and the criticism of Russian Olympic
investors. One article calls for the boycott of the 2014 Olympics rooted in the
LGBT matter while another simply libels the Russian investors. I analyse the
timing of these articles’ publishing, consider their spread across cyber space
and their influence on online media readers. I question the ethics of online
journalists and bloggers of spreading libel on Russian political and business controversies
and linking these irrelevant controversies to the Olympic Games. I answer whether these controversies
affect the Olympics or is it immoral to link these issues to the games and are
they tainting of the Olympic integrity?
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