Luqiu Luwei from my1510 criticizes the Chinese mainstream media for giving too much attention to the gold medal winners as if other medal winners or participants haven't been performing good enough to be proud of. ...full story at Global Voices
from Global Voices on Thu, Aug 21 2008
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