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Posted on 07/29/2008 5:05:56 AM PDT by indcons
Beijing's struggle to deal with foreign journalists covering the Olympics reached a new low Friday. As 30,000 people queued for the last Olympics ticket sales, fist-fights broke out. Police and soldiers tried to keep journalists from recording the mayhem.
A photojournalist for Hong Kong's South China Morning Post was detained for six hours. Two from Hong Kong's Now TV channel were detained, and the station reports that police asked them to delete their footage. All the journalists were from Hong Kong, suggesting police may have been particularly forceful with ethnically Chinese reporters.
Meanwhile, the government continues to block news Web sites such as the BBC's Mandarin site and the Chinese-language, pro-democratic Apple Daily of Hong Kong. That is happening inside Olympic media centers, despite the promise of China's Olympic organizers that Internet access would be unfettered.
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People will die, foreigners, at the Olympics and it will be the fault of the Reds. They’ll never be able to spin this but Western apologists (re: business men and the media) will help them along.
We were in Beijing in Feb 08. Uniformed people were working the bus stops to try to get people to line up insted of the usual herd technique. Trying to make it easier for the tourists during the Olympics.
“Trying to make it easier for the tourists during the Olympics.”
Obviously, it’s going to be easier for start-struck tourists than it’s going to be for the minorities (ethnic and religious) or people who stray from the CCP line.
Good on the WSJ for writing this.
Nice start by the ChiComs...
The American media will show the rest of the world the proper way to completely ignore anything negative and spin the ChiCom regime in a glowing light of benevolence.
Amazing, they’re trying to make a whole culture over and the real one invisible.
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