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So What Do You Do, Undercover Deadspin Olympics Reporters?
So What Do You Do, Undercover Deadspin Olympics Reporters?
Not every journalist covering the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing this month is busy broadcasting an eye-glazing 3,600 hours of coverage (2,200 of which concern Michael Phelps) or sporting a "J"-is-for-journalist visa in their passports. But finding coverage of these Games that hasn't been pre-packaged along the jingoistic story lines of the country of your choice has so far been hard to come by.
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