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JUL 14, 2008
China Olympics Security Undermines Media Freedoms: Experts
Reuters
China's massive Olympic security drive is undermining media freedoms promised for the Games, Beijing-based journalists say, and risks spoiling a chance for the country to highlight its culture and economic achievements. Recently security officials burst into a government-approved live broadcast, banned a TV crew from an Olympic test event they were authorized to attend, and have been blocking one firm from filming in an ordinary apartment outside the security cordon.
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JUL 10, 2008
Overseas reporters to Beijing Olympics to be well served
China View
Senior leader Li Changchun pledged Thursday that China will provide good media services for journalists covering the Olympics, saying that they can lodge complaints directly to Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), if they feel dissatisfied.
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JUL 9, 2008
Marathon Viewing
Conde Nast Portfolio
NBC will unleash 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage on viewers. "It’s more live coverage from a single Olympics than the total of all previous Summer Olympics combined," Dick Ebersol, the chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics, said in a press release issued by the company. In addition to 225 hours of coverage on NBC itself, viewers this year will be able to tune in live to the heretofore ignored triumphs of Olympic canoeing, archery, and judo competitions via NBCOlympics.com.
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JUL 9, 2008
Two Concerns for Olympics: Air and Access
The New York Times
With a month remaining before the Beijing Olympics, the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday praised the city’s preparations but also cited two "open issues" that remain: whether the city can deliver good air quality and fulfill promises to allow television networks to broadcast from non-Olympic sites.
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JUL 7, 2008
Covering the Olympics
The Wall Street Journal
In 2001, China's Communist leaders promised the International Olympic Committee to allow free press access to both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the country as a whole. So far signs aren't good that Beijing will stick to its word. Witness the case of Norman Choy, a senior reporter with Hong Kong's Apple Daily who was turned away at the Beijing airport on July 1.
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