The intense focus on athletes bending the knee to Saudi Arabia is welcome and warranted, but it is wildly disproportionate, given the lack of interest in major sports leagues doing the same for money from the Chinese Communist Party, writes ZacharyFaria.
Outlets across the sports media landscape have keyed in on Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf series. Golfer Phil Mickelson was browbeaten into an apology for downplaying Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations. At the Washington Post, John Feinstein said that there is “no excuse” for Mickelson chasing Saudi money, while Barry Svrluga accused him and other golfers joining the series of accepting blood money.
All of these outlets and writers are right to hold professional golfers to account for this. The outrage is warranted, as is the media spotlight. Yet, the sports media industry has not kept that same intensity for the athletes and sports leagues that have tied themselves to the Chinese Communist Party, the world’s worst regime when it comes to human rights abuses.
When ESPN published a bombshell report about the NBA running basketball camps in China, where Chinese coaches were abusing young athletes, the league told all current and former employees not to talk about it. Sports media have followed suit: Silver hasn’t had to field questions about the camps or the league’s response to them, and ESPN and other major outlets dropped the story just hours after it broke.
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