The Reason Why No One Is Watching the Beijing Olympics

The Reason Why No One Is Watching the Beijing Olympics
Security guards patrol the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games village in Beijing on Dec. 24, 2021. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
Lee Smith
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The Beijing Winter Olympics are heading toward the lowest TV viewership in the history of the Games. Right now, it’s about half the audience that watched the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Why so low?

Lee Smith
Lee Smith
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Lee Smith is a veteran journalist whose work appears in Real Clear Investigations, the Federalist, and Tablet. He is the author of “The Permanent Coup” and “The Plot Against the President.”
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