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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NEW YORK – Greek-American former NBC sportscaster Bob Costas criticized the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing China to host the Olympics again, CNN reported on January 24. Costas “has covered 12 Olympic Games as a host and commentator, did not hold back when discussing the challenges journalists will face during the Beijing Winter Olympics next month,” CNN reported.
“The IOC deserves all of the disdain and disgust that comes their way for going back to China yet again,” Costas said on CNN’s Reliable Sources on January 23.
Costas “referenced the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and the 2015 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia as examples of the International Olympic Committee’s seeming disregard for the prevalence of human rights abuses when selecting host nations,” CNN reported, noting that “now, there’s a ‘greater understanding of everything that China represents,’ he said.”
“They’re shameless about this stuff,” Costas told CNN of the IOC.
“Journalists will face a unique challenge during the Beijing games — balancing politics and sports, CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said, adding that there are many unknowns in terms of censorship and how free international journalists will be when it comes to reporting on events in and around the games,” CNN reported, adding that “some journalists heading to Beijing are taking precautions like bringing burner phones and laptops,” referencing a recent Washington Post article.
“There is a lot of money on the line — NBCUniversal has a $12 billion contract to broadcast the Olympics through 2023,” CNN reported, noting that “both NBC and ESPN announced this week they will not be sending their usual contingent of reporters and producers to the Games due to COVID concerns” and “NBC previously announced it would include geopolitical context during its Beijing coverage, but that its focus will be on the athletes.”
“We are going to be focusing on telling the stories of Team USA and covering the competition, but the world, as we all know, is a really complicated place right now. And we understand that there’s some difficult issues regarding the host nation,” Molly Solomon, executive producer and president of NBC Olympics Production, said during a presentation to reporters on January 19, CNN reported.
Costas, “acknowledging his respect for the challenges his former colleagues will face in Beijing, described Olympics reporting as a sort of ‘quasi journalism,’” CNN reported, adding that it is “because NBC pays a massive rights fee along with the production costs, putting the network in a somewhat promotional position for the Games.”
Costas added that “covering the Olympics isn’t simply a news event, but also an important ‘cultural panorama’ and ‘travelogue’ of the host nation, aspects that could be greatly reduced because of COVID and the potential for constant monitoring by Chinese authorities.”
“It’s a centerpiece of the entire network strategy at a time where everything is fractionalized,” Costas told CNN.
“During the fanfare of the Games, Stelter asked how viewers should expect the geopolitical context to be covered,” CNN reported.
“I would anticipate… [NBC] will acknowledge the issues at the beginning,” Costas told CNN, “and then address them only if something specific that cannot be ignored happens during the course of the Games.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.