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JUL 31, 2008
IMG Scores a Sports Deal With China
The Wall Street Journal
IMG Worldwide Inc., the sports-marketing powerhouse, has struck an exclusive 20-year deal with China's national TV broadcaster that gives the U.S. company the right to develop and market new sports events in one of the world's fastest-growing markets for televised sports.
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JUL 30, 2008
China Defies IOC to Ban Internet Freedom
The Daily Telegraph
Beijing today defied concerns of the International Olympic Committee and press freedom groups by confirming that the internet at Games facilities would remain censored.
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JUL 27, 2008
China and its Friends
globeandmail.com (blog)
In a commentary in its Friday edition, the People's Daily made an extraordinary appeal to its readers. It urged the Chinese government and ordinary Chinese citizens to "befriend the media." However recent abuse of correspondents and lack of access for media outlets bring this commitment into question. But there is another issue. The implicit message from the Chinese government is that those who praise the government are "friends of China," while those who criticize or expose problems are deemed "unfriendly" or even "enemies. It should be possible for journalists or scholars to write about China without being deemed a friend or an enemy.
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JUL 23, 2008
China Denies Work Visa for Los Gatos Olympian; Political Motive Suspected
The Mercury News
Kendra Zanotto was set to work as an expert synchronized swimming reporter for the Olympic News Service, an official arm of the Beijing Games. But she says her visa application was refused Monday because of her affiliation with Team Darfur, an athlete-driven group that seeks to call attention to the crisis in western Sudan.
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JUL 22, 2008
China’s Unreality TV
The New York Times
To win the right to host the Games, Beijing promised to expand press freedoms for foreign reporters and implied that opening China to the world would help expand human rights more generally. We will never know whether China’s leaders intended to keep their word. What we do know is that the International Olympic Committee, corporate sponsors and governments around the world should have held China to its word. They have not, and China has read their silence as complicity.
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