Sep 052012
Nicole Gelinas at City Journal compliments the British press for its in-depth coverage of the Paralympics while excoriating NBC for assuming that Americans aren’t interested in the event. It does seem that the London Paralympics are receiving great press from those media outlets bothering to cover them and the hometown crowd seems genuinely interested in the games. But I wonder if that’s a function of holding the Paralympics in a developed nation with a fairly vocal disability rights movement and laws enshrining accessibility and inclusion. I hope the Paralympics are as successful when they are held in Sochi and Rio, but I’m not sure it’s fair to expect those countries to pour the same resources into them that the U.K. clearly has.
