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JUN 24, 2008
Beijing’s troubling Olympic deception
St. Petersburg Times
Media companies that have paid for the rights to broadcast the Games are now being told they will not be able to film live in iconic locations like Tiananmen Square. Chinese officials fear protesters will be visible in the shots and fear an international backlash if cameras catch police violently engaging the protesters.  Read more...

JUN 18, 2008
Chinese state broadcaster chooses Red Bee Media to brand Beijing Olympics
Broadcast Engineering
China Central Television (CCTV) has hired Red Bee Media as the official creative and production partner for the Beijing Olympics — this means creating all the title sequences, graphics and branding for one of the world’s largest broadcasters.  Read more...

JUN 17, 2008
Will China wall off access to Olympic broadcasters?
Palm Beach Post
As a visiting communications professor teaching in Beijing last fall, Nancy Snow gave talks to state officials about how to deal with the Western media during the 2008 Summer Olympics. At times, it seemed like the sides were a world apart. Snow tried to get the Chinese to understand how journalists expect to be treated, but the Chinese wanted to know how to "manage" the media.  Read more...

JUN 8, 2008
Networks, Olympics organizers clash
AP
Television networks that will broadcast the Beijing Olympics to billions around the world are squaring off with local organizers over stringent security that threatens coverage of the games in two months. Differences over a wide range of issues - from limits on live coverage in Tiananmen Square to allegations that freight shipments of TV broadcasting equipment are being held up in Chinese ports - surfaced in a contentious meeting in late May between Beijing organizers and high-ranking International Olympic Committee officials and TV executives - including those from NBC.  Read more...

MAY 27, 2008
China plc needs new foreign formula
BBC News
Among the challenges that China plc needs to grasp, experts argue, is how to use "soft power" to its advantage. This concept has tended to more be familiar in diplomatic than commercial circles...In business terms, Chinese firms are not short of the basic attributes associated with so-called "hard power".  Read more...

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