Glee Over Sochi Problems Is a Problem of Its Own

The photos are sometimes as funny as they are telling. Bizarre toilets. Brown tap water. Hotel rooms still being constructed as guests move in

Shared by journalists arriving in Sochi for the Winter Olympics, each image delivers a quick digital hit of derisive humor while painting a bigger picture of an Olympic host city that does not quite look ready for primetime after years of hype and questions

But the snowballing attention around the "Sochi Problems" — or @SochiProblems, or #SochiProblems — has become a problem of its own

First: Any journalist on an all-expense-paid-and-then-some trip to Russia to cover the Winter Olympics is living a dream. Every reporter there is experiencing a great privilege. Speaking from experience, it's one an overwhelming number of journalists covering the games from newsrooms half a world away would give their eye teeth for Read more...