Don't buy the hype; Olympics as sleazy as sports get
There seems to be an epidemic of “tone deafness” going around. Chrysler’s Martin Luther King Super Bowl commercial? Tone deaf: “Even by the standards of the dream merchants who work in advertising and marketing, Chrysler’s use of King’s speech to sell their trucks was dishonest and tone deaf,” wrote Salon magazine. Grammy Awards? Tone deaf: “The 2018 Grammy Awards was a tone-deaf, out-of-touch mess,” said the Daily Beast. Want to know the granddaddy of tone deaf? The Olympics
