ESPN.com, the internet’s sports website of record, is running two stories I wrote about golf in China:
• Golf in China grows bigger by the day
• Chinese events bring interesting questions
At the time of this posting, the package was ESPN.com’s featured story on the site’s main page. But that changes pretty often, so here is a screen shot. It’s also the lead story on ESPN.com’s golf page (screen shot).
3 articles on golf in China and only one sentence that indirectly mentions the problems created by developing golf as a sport in China?
Is it more important to discuss China as the next great market for golf to be exploited, finding the next “Tiger Woods” or the “Yao Ming” of golf?
What about a few lines on the inefficient allocation of economic and natural resources that the construction of golf courses generate–the brazen land grabs by corrupt government officials and kicking peasants off their land in the process, the exacerbation of water shortages, particularly in northern China, to name a few?
LF,
if you start getting into all of those issues, then you’re actually talking about all of china’s too-rapid urban development, and all of the problems attached to china’s poorly planned development that doesn’t take the time to weigh out affects against the environment or even china’s people.
and then, i bet ESPN wouldn’t be too interested in the story anymore, would they?
there’s a time and a place for everything.