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Wed Nov 10

Olympic Games are great for propagandists – how the lessons of Hitler's Olympics loom over Beijing 2022

Written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism, University of Maine

Will anodyne reporting from the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics play into China's propaganda efforts? Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

On the morning of Aug. 14, 1936, two NBC employees met for breakfast at a café in Berlin. Max Jordan and Bill Slater were discussing the Olympic Games they were broadcasting back to the United States – and...

Olympic Games are great for propagandists – how the lessons of Hitler's Olympics loom over Beijing 2022

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