#Jules Boykoff

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But sportswashing serves deeper ideological functions as well. While wedging open the new zones of capital accumulation, the production of sportswashed space relies on previous established regimes of fandom that exist outside the sovereign territory of the purveyor of sportswashing. This taps into what Kalman-Lamb emphasizes as the affective elements of sport as a key site for social reproduction. He argues that capitalism creates “affective need” that is satiated through sport spectatorship. So, “fandom is a response to the affective deprivation of capitalism. It is an attempt to find meaning and community in a society that denies them. Fans watch sporting events and feel a part of something that is larger than themselves. They feel like they are part of a team and part of a community of others who are also part of that team.” Sportswashers operating on foreign turf exploit these complex relations for their own purposes, enrolling spectators, as well as athletic laborers, as political chess pieces in the process. At the same time, sportswashers risk igniting political opposition, given that fandom is saturated with affective capital, and thus gamble fomenting militant activism anchored in local concerns but linked to wider movements for justice. In this way, sportswashing both hardens and expands what Hall called the “boundaries and limits of tolerable politics” while invoking but also unsettling human-rights discourses.

—— Jules Boykoff, "Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict", Sociology of Sport Journal, 2022, 39, 342-351

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Jules Boykoff – Olimpiyata Hayırcılar (2024)

‘Olimpiyata Hayırcılar’, Olimpiyat karşıtı aktivizmin küresel yükselişiyle Olimpiyat Oyunlarına ev sahipliği yapmanın azalan popülaritesinin kesişimini araştırıyor. Olimpiyatlar bir zamanlar göz alıcı bir refah, turizm ve istihdamda artış efsaneleriyle pohpohlanıyordu ama son yıllarda bu “güvenceler”in foyası meydana çıktı. Olimpiyatların yerinden edilme, genişletilmiş polislik faaliyeti ve…

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We Must Defend Imane Khelif

Imane Khelif of Algeria celebrates victory against Anna Luca Hamori of Hungary in the Olympic women’s quarterfinal 66kg boxing match on August 3, 2024, in Paris.(Richard Pelham / Getty Images) By Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin https://www.thenation.com/article/society/imane-khelif-olympics-paris-boxing-transphobia Here on the streets of Olympic Paris, people have been protesting numerous…

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By Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

U.S. 1500-meter runner Nikki Hiltz, who is nonbinary, will be running for their community in the Olympics, and very much against the grain when one considers the retrograde approach that the transphobic World Athletics, the global governing body for track and field, has taken when it comes to trans participation. In March 2023, it issued new guidelines that, in essence, banned transgender women athletes from participating in World Athletics events.

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COINTELPRO “counter intelligence program” a team within the FBI said to “‘disrupt’ and ‘neutralize’ individuals deemed to be threats to domestic security.” These covert programs were aimed at five main targets: 1) the communist party (1956-71) 2) the socialist workers party (1961-69) 3) White Hate Groups (1961-69) 4) black nationalist - hate groups (1967-71) 4) the New Left (1968)

Beyond Bullets: the suppression of dissent in the United state by Jules Boykoff

I am holding this quote up because so much talk about what the FBI does is stopping international terrorist or white supremacists. But their focus has been on any group fighting the status quo, clearly shown in the 4/5 of these groups being progressive movements. “223 of 295 actions against “black nationalists” were against the black panthers.” Including the killings of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Fred Hampton who was asleep in bed with his pregnant wife (now called Akua Njeri)

And if you don’t know, we can thank the black panthers for the breakfast programs in schools. Which was first started by the BPP

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The Olympics are guilty of a "double standard," said Jules Boykoff. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the International Olympic Committee was quick to condemn Moscow and bar Russia from sending a team to the Summer Games in Paris. IOC officials said Russia had lost its "right to membership of the international Olympic community." That's why just 15 Russians are competing in Paris, and not under the Russian flag but as "individual neutral athletes." So why didn't the IOC uphold the same standard when Israel began pounding Gaza with bombs? Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, including Palestinian Olympic soccer coach Hani al-Masdar, who was brought down "by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza." Why are 88 Israelis in Paris allowed to compete under the Israeli flag, rather than as neutrals? The IOC says that Russia violated the "Olympic truce" by invading Ukraine during a narrow window around the Beijing Winter Games, and seized territory that contained "regional sports organizations." That's a "flimsy scrim" of excuses. There's no question Israel has "violated the territorial integrity of Palestine" and demolished "every football pitch in Gaza." The IOC's differing treatment of Israel and Russia "ripples with hypocrisy."

THE WEEK August 9, 2024

Not exactly apples to apples. But an interesting question.

This brings to mind the pervasive corruption at the Olympics: doping, fake investigations of doping, scandals, bribery of Olympic board members and judges, cheating, manipulation of scoring, double standards, fake “sports,” commercialization, and hypocrisy. The IOC is a cesspool. 😕😕😕

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worth noting that any other country in its place would not be banned and that historically the Olympics have unevenly enforced its participation bans based on money and power and its own internal politics. (see Myanmar's participation during the ongoing Rohingya genocide, Sudan's participation despite ongoing genocide in Darfur, the US's uninterrupted participation, etc.)

Citations Needed recently released an episode with Dr. Jules Boykoff, whose academic work focuses on the politics of the Olympic Games. It is not the sole focus of the episode, but they specifically discuss the participation bans over the years in the back half of the episode.

Paris, Power, and Olympic Class War with Jules Boykoff

the Olympics is a political arm of the global core, and it serves as a very effective bit of propaganda. their hypocrisy around banning Russia and Belarus but not Israel is part of that political work.

south africa was banned in the olympics in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 & 1992. a total of 8 times. for 28 years they didn't set foot in the olympics. you know why? apartheid. apparently the olympics disagreed with the apartheid regime in south africa. russia & belarus aren't allowed to take part in the olympics this year. you know why? because of their involvement in the war in ukraine. several countries throughout history haven't been allowed to participate in the olympics because of various reason from their involvement in war to human rights abuses. now if the olympics aren't blind to all that... why in the world are they blind to what israel has been doing to gaza for the past 10 months? why is a genocidal apartheid nation allowed to participate in the olympics when any other country in its place would've been banned?

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The Olympics Have A Dirty History—Literally! But A Green Sports Movement Is Pushing For Change, Eager To See If Paris Will Be Different.

— July 20, 2024 | By Madeleine Orr, University of Toronto | Foreign Policy

The wind blows a plastic bag past the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing on January 23, 2008. Guang Niu/Getty Images

In April 1929, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met in Lausanne, Switzerland, to grant the hosting rights for the 1932 Winter Olympic Games. The United States was the frontrunner, and seven U.S. candidate sites showed up to bid: Bear Mountain and Lake Placid, New York; Denver, Colorado; Duluth, Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Lake Tahoe and Yosemite Valley, California. For many small mountain towns, this would be their shot to generate the investment dollars needed to build new winter sport infrastructure and secure a strong tourism industry in a very economically fragile time—the start of the Great Depression.

This article is adapted from Warming Up: How Climate Change Is Changing Sport by Madeleine Orr (Bloomsbury, 320 pp., $25.20, May 2024).

Godfrey Dewey, vice president of the exclusive Lake Placid Club (and son of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification System for library books) was the lead administrator of the town’s bid. Dewey made a series of lofty promises—chief among them, a new Olympic sliding track for bobsled. Then-New York Gov. (and later U.S. president) Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote letters in support of the project, turning the small New York town into a frontrunner.

It all seemed promising, until Lake Placid secured hosting rights and things got messy.

Dewey’s planned bobsled run was to be on the Lake Placid Club’s site, within the protected Adirondack Forest Preserve. The Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks led a legal complaint in New York State courts, claiming that the project went against the “forever wild” clause of the state’s constitution, which maintains that state lands “constituting the forest preserve…shall be forever kept as wild forest lands.”

The U.S. four-man bobsleigh team shoots a curve on the run at Lake Placid, New York, on February 16, 1932. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

A two-year legal battle ensued. Environmental activists routinely protested and made noise in the press. Eventually, the New York State Court of Appeals held that a statute authorizing the construction of a bobsled run, requiring the destruction of 5,122 trees, was unconstitutional. Dewey and the organizing committee were forced to find a location elsewhere. They settled on a site just outside the Forest Preserve boundary.

That kind of pressure from environmental groups has never gone away. In nearly every Olympic host city since, there has been what sport sociologist Jules Boykoff calls the “NOlympic movement”—organized groups of people who do not want these large, damaging events to come to town. Over time, these movements gained momentum and media attention, eventually reaching Olympic decision-makers and creating public pressure to effect positive green change. But this process would take decades.

A lone celebrant views a tally board at the Denver Olympic Committee victory headquarters in Colorado on November 7, 1972, after voters rejected funding of the 1976 Winter Olympics. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

Fast forward to 1970. Denver was awarded the hosting rights for the 1976 Winter Olympics. It was billed as an ideal opportunity to celebrate the United States’ bicentennial and Colorado’s centennial anniversaries. But it took less than a year for the Games to be met with major dissent from local politicians. Months after the hosting rights were awarded to the city, State Rep. Bob Jackson told the Associated Press, “We ought to say to the nation and the world, ‘We’re sorry, we are concerned about the environment. We made a mistake. Take the Games elsewhere.’”

Dick Lamm, another state representative, told Ski Magazine, “Every time I ask a question about ecology, the Olympic people tell me, ‘Don’t worry, we are going to take care of that.’ But a state which has never taken down as much as a single billboard to improve the environment is not going to run an Olympics which the ecologists would like.” By 1972, the city withdrew from hosting and the Games were moved to Innsbruck, Austria, which had held the event in 1964 and had most facilities ready to go.

Germany also saw environmental groups put pressure on—and ultimately shut down—the Olympics over environmental concerns. In 1983, the mayor and local tourism director of Berchtesgaden announced a bid for the 1992 Winter Olympics. Almost immediately, a local citizens’ initiative was organized against it, and successfully campaigned to shut down the bid. That edition of the Winter Games was hosted by Albertville, France.

Amanda Shuman, a historian at the University of Freiburg, has been studying how the Berchtesgaden citizens’ initiative was contextually different from those that preceded it in other countries. She and I work together through the Sport Ecology Group, so I called her to get the background story.

“The early 1980s were a unique time for the environmental movement in Germany. Acid rain was at the top of everyone’s mind because Der Spiegel, the country’s biggest magazine, decided to run a series of exposés on forest death with pretty aggressive headlines like ‘The Forest is Dying,’” Shuman said. “At the same time, the newly formed Green Party rode that wave of public concern into their first seats in Parliament. Environmental groups watched this happen and were emboldened to act on different issues because there was more visibility and political support for their work.”

Shuman argues that historically, anti-sport development efforts went against the political grain, as politicians routinely used sporting mega-events as a platform-building opportunity. But in 1970s Colorado, and again in 1980s Germany, there was some degree of political support behind anti-Olympics campaigns.

The opening ceremony of the Lillehammer Winter Olympics in Norway on February 12, 1994. Pascal Rondeau/AllSport/Getty Images

Despite repeated involvement and pressure by environmental groups to slow, move, or shut down sport development and big events through the 20th century, it wasn’t until the 1990s that sports organizations took up the mantle of environmental action themselves.

In 1992, the same year that the word “sustainability” entered the global lexicon at the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil, the IOC was facing challenges with the perceptions of the Olympics following the Albertville Winter Games, which were dubbed an “environmental catastrophe” in the local news given the extraordinary distance between the different venues. The event was so spread out geographically that athletes and spectators drove through the mountains from one town to the next, clogging up the roadways and polluting an otherwise quiet area of France.

After Albertville, the IOC knew it had to act to strengthen its reputation on environmental issues and align more closely with growing global concerns about the climate. It’s still not clear whether the IOC has succeeded at improving its record or reputation on environmental work.

The 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, are viewed as the first attempt to create a “green” Olympic Games. It was a tall order. After the environmental wreckage at Albertville, local activists in Lillehammer forced the organizing committee to adapt their hosting plans based on environmental concerns. The changes included a redesigned speed-skating rink that minimized impacts on a nearby bird sanctuary, a plan to prioritize the use of renewable building materials, energy-efficiency upgrades for facilities, and a recycling program at all venues.

The 1990s were a supercharged decade for sustainability across all sports, not just the Olympic Games. In 1993, the National Football League in the United States launched their NFL Green campaign, which has seen every subsequent Super Bowl implement waste management and nature restoration projects. In 1994, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) created its Sports and Environment Program to promote environmental awareness through sports and sustainable design principles in sports facilities and equipment manufacturing. Also that year, the Centennial Olympic Congress of Paris named the environment a “third pillar” of the Olympic charter, alongside sport and culture.

Later in the 1990s, the UNEP worked with the IOC to develop an “Agenda 21” for the Olympic Movement based on sustainability guidelines created by delegates at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. (The document’s publication was sponsored by Shell.) The IOC committed itself to promoting sustainability among its 206 member nations and 30 governing bodies for winter and summer sports, and to require sustainability plans from the hosts of its marquee events. This is only a commitment to “encourage” sustainability, though, not to mandate it. The IOC does not control operations among its members. Despite these ambitions, the process of implementation has been a roller-coaster, with several sharp turns off-course.

For the first 20 years of the green sports movement, from about 1992 to 2012, the focus was on operational improvements: reducing waste, switching to energy-efficient lighting, using less water, and measuring carbon footprints. These efforts were impactful. Consider how much toilet paper is used in a stadium with hundreds of toilets—it’s a lot. Finding a toilet paper provider that uses recycled paper instead of fresh forests is a meaningful improvement.

The washroom inside the National Aquatics Center, where swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming Olympic events were held, in Beijing on January 28, 2008. Feng Li/Getty Images

Or think about the water savings that can be achieved by implementing an irrigation system that cuts water use from 60,000 liters per night to 50,000. In one year, the facility will reduce its water consumption by more than 4.1 million liters. That’s enough water to fill three Olympic-size swimming pools. But these efforts can be hard to communicate to fans and do little to leverage sports’ sizeable platform to inspire fans to act on climate change and build popular support for action.

A 2021 study published by Martin Müller and colleagues at the University of Lausanne developed a model to evaluate the environmental sustainability of Olympic Games hosted between 1992 and 2020. It found that Salt Lake City in 2002 was the most sustainable, while more recent iterations in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016 were the least sustainable. Part of the challenge for the IOC is that each host country is operating within its own sets of definitions, limitations, and government priorities, so sustainability often takes a back seat to tourism development and growth plans.

Cyclists ride over a road sign demarcating a Paris 2024 bike lane along the Rue de Rivoli in Paris on July 3. Julien De Rosa/AFP Via Getty Images

Some of the Most Exciting Work on Sustainability is Coming Out of the Paris 2024 Olympic Committee, which promises a carbon-positive Games. The French capital has banned non-essential through traffic from its city center effective in 2024, making 5.4 square miles of the city straddling both sides of the Seine much greener and cleaner. They are also adding bike lanes and bus routes, and 95 percent of the venues will be existing facilities or temporary builds, so only two new builds are needed. We haven’t seen anything better than this. Still, there will be loads of tourists (it’s Paris, there are always tourists), so the organizers have committed to offsetting all remaining emissions.

I have been outspoken in recent years about how I don’t think it’s possible to have a carbon-positive Olympic Games—and that this language is misleading and potentially detrimental to the broader movement. It’s great to see the ambition to be very low-impact, but “carbon-positive” is just not realistic in the context of an international sporting event with hundreds of thousands of tourists and participants.

Overall, though, the green sports movement is decidedly on the right track. Reflecting on the progress to date in the United States, environmental scientist Allen Hershkowitz—once dubbed the “Godfather of Green Sports”—said in a podcast interview in 2021, “I think, actually, over the last 10 years, the sport and sustainability movement has been one of the most effective sectors in the environmental advocacy world, especially in North America, where our government has been outright hostile to environmental progress.”

From where I’m standing, it’s clear a lot more has been happening in green sports in recent years. The sector is moving forward, and moving together. Now we have to pick up the pace.

— Madeleine Orr is an Assistant Professor of Sport Ecology at the University of Toronto. She is the Founder of the Sport Ecology Group and the Author of the recent book Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sport.

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"Sportswashing & Greenwashing": Ex-Soccer Player Jules Boykoff on Qatar Hosting World Cup

“Sportswashing & Greenwashing”: Ex-Soccer Player Jules Boykoff on Qatar Hosting World Cup

We speak with author Jules Boykoff about the climate and political implications of the 2022 World Cup. The soccer tournament is being played in the winter for the first time due to Qatar’s extreme summer temperatures. Boykoff says Qatar and FIFA have greenwashed the event by erroneously claiming the World Cup is “fully carbon neutral” despite blocking an independent review of the games. Boykoff…

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The press's adherence to balance actually leads to biased coverage of global warming ... This bias, hidden behind the veil of journalistic balance, creates ... political space for the U.S. government to shirk responsibility and delay action regarding global warming.

Balance as Bias by Maxwell T. Boykoff and Jules M. Boykoff

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【記者会見プレリリース】

Press Conference

Press Release

「過酷な真夏の開催は危険！」

２０２０東京五輪開催中止を求める国際共同声明を発表

〜反五輪団体が７月に東京に結集！

“It’s dangerous to host the Games in the middle of harsh summer”

Announcing the international joint statement calling for the cancelation of Tokyo 2020: Anti-Olympic Games advocacy groups gather in Tokyo in July!

　東京五輪開催を1年後に控え、過去の五輪開催都市および開催予定都市の反五輪団体６団体が東京に結集し、「過酷な真夏の五輪開催」に反対する国際共同声明を発表します。

With the Tokyo Olympics being one year away, six anti-Olympic groups from past and future host cities of Olympic Games will gather in Tokyo to issue an international joint statement opposing “hosting the Olympics in the middle of a dangerously hot summer.”

　

　来年の東京五輪は、３０度を超える猛暑・炎天下の下で開催が予測され、アスリートのみならず、観客やボランティア、とくに子どもたちを熱中症などの危険にさらす可能性があるとして、世界中から懸念の声があがっています。

Next year's Tokyo Olympics are expected to be held under conditions of extreme heat where temperatures are forecasted to exceed 30 degrees centigrade. Concerns have been raised about the potential of putting not only athletes, but also spectators, volunteers, and especially children at risk for heatstroke.

 　また今回の東京五輪は、交通機関の利用制限や過剰すぎる警察警備体制、競技場への熱帯雨林を違法に伐採した木材の使用や野宿者の排除、原子力災害被災者の切り捨てなど、様々な都市機能麻痺や人権侵害などを引き起こしているだけでなく、五輪招致をめぐる買収疑惑までもが浮上、「搾取オリンピック」と称されるほど問題を抱えています。

In addition, the Tokyo Olympics is host to a multitude of urban infrastructure problems and violation of human rights and environmental code including: restrictions on the use of public transportation; deployment of a large-scale police security system; use of wood illegally logged from the rainforest to build the stadium; displacement of homeless people; abandonment of the victims of Fukushima’s nuclear power plant disaster. In fact, there are so many problems that the Games is now being called the “Exploitation Olympics”.In addition, the Tokyo Olympics is host to a multitude of urban infrastructure problems and violation of human rights and environmental code including: restrictions on the use of public transportation; deployment of a large-scale police security system; use of wood illegally logged from the rainforest to build the stadium; displacement of homeless people; abandonment of the victims of Fukushima’s nuclear power plant disaster. In fact, there are so many problems that the Games is now being called the “Exploitation Olympics”.

 　そこで、東京五輪の抱える問題を実態調査するため、米国のスポーツ・ジャーナリスト　ジ��ールズ・ボイコフ　Jules Boykoff　氏（、『祝賀資本主義とオリンピック』著書）が緊急来日を決定。これにあわせ、ブラジル・リオ（2016年夏開催）、韓国・平昌（2018年冬開催）、仏国パリ(2024年夏開催予定)、米国ロサンゼルス(2028年夏開催予定)など、五輪開催地域の反五輪団体が東京に結集し、東京五輪の中止を求める共同声明を発表する運びとなりました。ぜひご取材ください。

To investigate the problems of the Tokyo Olympics, a renowned U.S. sports journalist and scholar, Jules Boykoff (The author of Celebratory Capitalism and the Olympics) will make an emergency visit to Japan. For this occasion, anti-Olympics groups from past and future host cities, such as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (summer 2016), Pyeongchang, Korea (winter 2018), Paris, France (summer 2024), and Los Angeles (summer 2028) are also scheduled to gather in Tokyo and issue a joint statement calling for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics. We hope we can welcome you at this press release event.

 日時：２０１９年７月２３日（火）　11：00～　外国人記者クラブ　

場所：日本外国特派員協会（東京都 千代田区 丸の内 3-2-3　丸の内二重橋ビル5階）

Dates/Time: July 23, 2019 (Tuesday), From 11:00am

Location: Foreign Correspondent Club (Marunouchi Nijubashi Building 5F, 3-2-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo)

 ※ジャーナリストのみ参加可能です。下記の日本外国特派員協会HPよりご確認ください。　

FCCJ - Press Conference: "NoOlympics2020" by Boykoff, Orchier and Ichimura http://www.fccj.or.jp/events-calendar/press-events/icalevent.detail/2019/07/23/5261/-.html

 出席者： Participants:

 ジュールズ・ボイコフ：Jules Boykoff　（元プロサッカー選手。オリンピック出場経験者。パシフィック大学政治学教授。著書に『Ｃｅｌｅｂｒａｔｉｏｎ　Ｃａｐｉｔａｌｉｓｍ　ａｎｄ　the Olympic Games（祝賀資本主義とオリンピック）』『Pawer Games（邦題「オリンピック秘史」早川書房）』）

Jules, Boykoff (Former professional soccer player and olympian, professor at the Pacific University, U.S. He is the author of Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games)

 アン・オーシエー：Anne Orchier（アメリカ・ロサンゼルス在住。反オリンピック団体「NolympicsLA」メンバー。ロサンゼルス居住者ユニオン、スクール・オブ・エコーズ）

Anne Orchier (Resident of Los Angeles, U.S., member of the “Los Angeles Tenants Union” and “School of Echoes”, and the organizing member of  “NOlympics LA”.

 ��ちむらみさこ：Misako Ichimura（反五輪の会 NO OLYMPICS 2020　メンバー）

Misako Ichimura（Member of “Han gorin no kai NoOlympics2020”）

 ※会見時、デイブ・ザイリン氏　Dave Zirin（スポーツ・ジャーナリスト）、パリ・ＬＡ・韓国の反五輪団体関係者も来場します。ぜひ取材をお願いします。

Dave Zirin (Sports journalist), as well as members of anti-olympics groups from Paris, Los Angeles and South Korea, will also be present at the presser.

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Hosted by:

反五輪の会 NO OLYMPICS 2020　　Hangorinnokai No OLYMPICS 2020

首藤久美子（sudo kumiko反五輪の会）  hangorin2020　＠　gmail.com

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What will diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics achieve? | Inside Story by Al Jazeera English Canada is joining the US, Britain and Australia in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games to protest against China's human rights record. China says the four nations will 'pay a price for a mistake'. So what will the boycott achieve? And are deeper political issues at play? Presenter: Nick Clark Guests: Victor Teo, Political Scientist affiliated with The Cold War Project at the University of Cambridge. Ross Griffin, Middle East Editor, International Journal of the History of Sports. Jules Boykoff, chair of Pacific University's Politics and Government Department and a former Olympic footballer. - Subscribe to our channel: https://ift.tt/291RaQr - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1iHo6G4 - Check our website: https://ift.tt/2lOp4tL #AlJazeeraEnglish #InsideStory #China #WinterOlympics

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Media coverage of climate change is becoming less biased

Newspapers have reported climate change more accurately over the past 15 years.

Over the past 15 years, newspapers have been 90% accurate on climate change reporting, according to a study published in Environmental Research Letters.

The researchers, who are based in the US, found that print media reporting on climate change in five countries (the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada) was becoming less biased and more scientifically accurate, although some conservative media outlets lagged behind.

“Two decades ago, print media frequently gave equal credence to both legitimate climate experts and outlier climate deniers. But we found in more recent years that the media around the globe actually got it right most of the time,” says Dr Lucy McAllister, lead author on the study.

The researchers examined 5,000 newspaper articles, each published in one of 17 outlets between 2005 and 2019.

“Nine out of ten media stories accurately reported the science on human contributions to climate change,” says McAllister. “It’s not portrayed as a two-sided debate anymore.”

The researchers did find, however, that “historically conservative” outlets – such the Daily Telegraph in Australia – were significantly less accurate. Some world events, such as the 2009 Copenhagen Accord, also had a negative effect on accuracy.

This accuracy represents a shift in media coverage of climate change. In 2004, one of the researchers (Max Boykoff, an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, US) co-authored a similar study that found very different results. In 2004, Boykoff found that US media outlets consistently reported both climate denial and climate science in a “balanced” manner, leading to biased overall coverage of climate change by implying that both views had equal evidence in favour of them.

“Many continue to cite the 2004 Max Boykoff and Jules Boykoff article – with data ending in 2002 – as evidence of persistent bias in the media,” says McAllister. “An updated analysis was critically needed.”

Boykoff, who is also a co-author on this study, says that while the updated research shows outlets are now covering climate change more accurately, this isn’t cause for complacency.

“The terrain of climate debates has largely shifted in recent years away from mere denial of human contributions to climate change to a more subtle and ongoing undermining of support for specific policies meant to substantially address climate change,” he says.

Read more:

New IPCC report issues global climate change warning

How do apocalyptic films influence how we think about climate change?

Climate change will cost a young Australian up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals

Originally posted to Cosmos Magazine as Media coverage of climate change is becoming less biased

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Jeux olympiques Tokyo «2020». Priorité à la TV, pas aux athlètes ou aux habitants

Jeux olympiques Tokyo «2020». Priorité à la TV, pas aux athlètes ou aux habitants

5 août 2021 Alencontre Japon, Société 0 Par Dave Zirin et Jules Boykoff Même pour l’observateur occasionnel des Jeux olympiques, il était clair dès mars 2020 que le Comité international olympique (CIO) [qui réside dans la bien nommée «Lausanne ville olympique», dans un bâtiment luxueux, nouvellement construit – réd.] colportait une fantasmagorie. En annonçant sa décision de reporter les Jeux…