"Empires and Multinationals"
Feb. 27th, 2010 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarrick
Two excerpts from a CBC radio essay "Empires and Multinationals" that first aired in 1986. The programme was rebroadcast February 26, 2010 on "Rewind" and it's remarkable how relevant it remains. The whole programme is available from the CBC at this URL: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/rewind_20100226_28137.mp3 The 1984 games in Los Angeles were the end for me. I had been disappointed by the boycott of the Moscow games in 1980, and the blatant commercialisation of the 1984 games with the creation of the "Official Sponsor" programme was like trying to get a bad taste out of my mouth by washing it out with soap. Since then I've pretty much ignored the Olympics as irrelevant and meaningless, but of course there was no ignoring them this year. |
