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Three activists from Paris-based press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders, including its secretary-general Robert Ménard, managed to disrupt yesterday's Olympic flame ceremony by unfurling a banner showing the Olympic rings transformed into handcuffs in the middle of a speech by Mr Liu Qi, president of the Beijing organising committee and Beijing Communist Party Secretary. The banner included the slogan, "'Boycott the country that tramples on human rights".
According to a report by AP:
Police also detained one Tibetan campaigner and a Greek photographer with him in the village of Ancient Olympia, just outside the site, where Tibet protesters had gathered.Mr Lhadon Tethong, director of Students for a Free Tibet, said both men were taken to the local police station.
'One of our colleagues saw them being dragged by about 20 police through town,' Mr Tethong said.
CCTV appeared well-prepared for surprises though. It cut to "what appeared to be stock pictures of the ceremony site in Olympia". Commentary on Greek TV also made zero mention of the incident.
Opposed to holding the Olympic Games in Beijing from the outset, Reporters Without Borders has capitalised on latest developments in Tibet to lobby western nations to boycott the Games.
According to the organisation (proxy/VPN required), there are nine things the Chinese government must do before the Beijing Olympic Games:
1. Release all journalists and Internet users detained in China for exercising their right to information.2. Abolish for ever the restrictive articles in the Foreign Correspondents Guide that limit the media’s freedom of movement and work.
3. Disband the Publicity Department (the former Propaganda Department), which exercises daily control over content in the Chinese press.
4. End the jamming of foreign radio stations.
5. End the blocking of thousands of news and information websites based abroad.
6. Suspend the “11 Commandments of the Internet,” which lead to content censorship and self-censorship on websites.
7. End the blacklisting of journalists and human rights activists, which prevents them from visiting China.
8. Lift the ban on Chinese media using foreign news agency video footage and news reports without permission.
9. Legalize independent organisations of journalists and human rights activists.
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An eyewitness on BBC world said that the PAP/PLA cordoned off areas with riots even while Han Chinese were allegedly being attacked.
Was this done to allow Han to be killed and therefore justify a deadly crackdown by the military as well as stir up more Chinese nationalism?
BBC, YOU humilate yourself again by using pics of Nepalese police arresting tibetan protesters to report this Olympic torch incident.
The BBC Charter and its Producers Guidelines state:.. impartiality lies at the heart of the BBC. All programs and services should be open minded, fair and show a respect for truth?[BBC reports should] contain comprehensive, authoritative and impartial coverage of news and current affairs in the United Kingdom and throughout the world How does the BBC measure up to its charter?
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concor1: Care to give your opinions on the Chinese media?
Fjiofojif,
China media is not free to report political issues, everyone knows that.
And China media has never put on such lovely statement as BBC does.
Personally, I am in favour of BBC most of times, though it has disappointed me in several occasions.
Considering human does make mistake, so i believe those mistakes are just sort of neglect. I only hope BBC will not keep on neglecting only because they have to put on a picture alone with a report so as to attract eyes.
The concern is if China goes for free media, will it also mix up different facts for the purpose to attract readers attention, because without government funding, media has to survive by itself, which means to attract more readers by any necessary means.
Free Media is good, but free to which extent, it is a question.
But Bamboos, you do realize that a media directly controlled by the government (and Xinhua is the perfect example) will distort facts and outright lie to make itself look good to its people. It LIES on a far greater scale than the Western free press, which obviously is sensationalist and in cases biased. Please tell me why Chinese think a media controlled and scripted by one monolithic organization is more trustworthy than a hundred unfettered news groups all competing for attention? By simple logic a clearer picture will emerge from reading multiple versions of the same event from a variety of sources. You do understand this, don't you? That the purpose of Xinhau is not to inform Chinese people but to tell them what to believe so that they will support the government. You do understand this, right?
Not everything that shines is gold! Same happens with Tibet! Look at that:
http://www.noiblau.com/2008/03/is-he-hallucinating-again.html
China media has never been afraid of saying that they represent government view. it is no doubt that China media supports Chinese government, every Chinese knows that. But, there is NO Unbiased media existing in the world. At least, China media has Never Pretended to be 'Impartiality', he is honest on this point. Meanwhile, the China media is quite free now at any topics which are not politically related. A good improvement.
Of the ‘free media’, a piece of recent news from overseas Chinese website (GFW'ed) might explain better:
--The planned peaceful demonstrations (organized by Chinese local communities for supporting Beijing) in London, Vancouver, Montreal, etc have been called off by organizers, due to the worrying about unfair 'free media' reporting……
I am that generation who (secretly) listened to VOA during teenage, thought USA was the heaven, and VOA, CNN, BBC symbolizing the freedom and justice. During the past 10 years, this image has been fading out. Interestingly, this kind of distrust is spreading into China from overseas, from those overseas GFW’ed Chinese website.
Alec, I am not relevant in any politics/media field at all. pls do not be frustrated of what I said above. I love your country and I do think USA is much advanced than China in many aspects, and it may take 50-100 years for China to catch up. But I donot think China must adopt the same political system or media system as that of USA.
It is Anglo-Saxon culture that told me there is nothing definitely right or wrong, therefore something different from Anglo-Saxon culture is not necessary to be Heresy…
I believe China will loosen media control sooner or later, it is up to Beijing to figure it out when and to which extent. Government must serve for its people, take people’s demand into consideration. I, an ordinary Chinese, want a stable and peaceful social environment. If certain form of ‘free media’ will damage this environment, then I am against it.