<story><title>BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar criticism</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/20/bbc-ignores-world-cup-opening-ceremony-in-favour-of-qatar-criticism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hfbff</author><text>Good. This is by far the world cup I&amp;#x27;ve been less excited about, both because it counts as whitewash for the Qatar government and for how corrupt FIFA is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmclnx</author><text>Plus the scam Qatar forced upon inBev, originally beer was suppose to be sold in the stadium, which they paid ~75m for, then in the last minute Qatar said &amp;quot;no beer sales in the stadium&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Now I have no issues with restricting alcohol and even banning it, but with that last minute about face after taking money from that company, I think they are at least do a refund plus interest.</text></comment>
<story><title>BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar criticism</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/20/bbc-ignores-world-cup-opening-ceremony-in-favour-of-qatar-criticism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hfbff</author><text>Good. This is by far the world cup I&amp;#x27;ve been less excited about, both because it counts as whitewash for the Qatar government and for how corrupt FIFA is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsol</author><text>How is this different from China hosting the winter Olympics or Russia before that? I fail to see how this is anything but arbitrarily treating others worse. The USA literally has an exception to the slavery amendment for prison labor</text></comment>