Shanghaiist: HK reporter and cameraman taken away after Olympic ticketing kerffufle in Beijing

Angella

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:18:01 +0800

Certain types of reporters will go out of their way to get their stories. Under that kind of chaotic situation, it's hard to say who's more at fault?

arrival

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:57:07 +0800

sorry, it may be a bit late to comment on this ... anyway, after spending 5 years in Hong Kong, I got to know reporters there believe they are "government police". They are so used to having their way in the name of freedom of the press. It's interesting but sad to even find hospital people actually stand aside so that they can take pictures of or even interview the patients ... I guess, if they had their way, they would even expect the bullets to stop flying around whenever they wanted to do the shooting during a shoot out ! That's hongkong reporters to you.

eastman

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:30:33 +0800

With his groin bbqed like a yangrouchuan, Felix Wong the HK reporter went to hospital with flowers like a crippled dry grasshopper for a sincere apology to wounded Beijing cop. So the case is maybe closed Chinese way. Released HK reporter apologizes to injured officer 2008-07-25 BEIJING - A reporter with a Hong Kong-based newspaper apologized on Friday afternoon to a Beijing policeman who he had injured after a scuffle at an Olympic Games ticket outlet. Felix Wong, a South China Morning Post (SCMP) newspaper photographer, was released after he was taken away by police in the morning. He was escorted away from the scene after breaking through a barricade set up to control a crowd lined up to buy tickets and kicking a policeman in the groin, a Beijing municipal government information office spokesman said. More than 30,000 people queued for the final chance to buy Olympic tickets near the National Stadium, aka the "Bird's Nest," at about 10:30 a.m. when the incident happened, the spokesman said. "Police immediately informed the SCMP's Beijing bureau about the incident," he said. "At about 4 p.m., a bureau director and Felix Wong went to the hospital to visit the injured officer, Zhang Yuzhu." "Wong made a sincere apology to Zhang and presented flowers," the spokesman said. "Wong has returned to his newspaper bureau. The bureau said it would cooperate with the investigation at any time," he added

shanghai

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:08:41 +0800

All reporters including from hongkong must abide the law where they are. None should claim a complete media freedom while committed an offence against local rules.

shanghai

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:49:43 +0800

You need to abide by the law where you are. Is it anything wrong?

Pirx

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:38:03 +0800

Hey, guys, get real! You can't seriously have expected the Chinese to promise open access, free reporting and actually stick to the promise? Like most things in China being a copy, so are the Communist party and the state just a 1:1 copy of the Soviet Union. Noone would have believed the Soviet Union, had they ever made statements about Olympic press-freedom. Why, then, believe China?

eastman

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:47:58 +0800

Here are more, as my bashing of cops crime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxRcvHqbIZc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_V_OmlmM8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQPv8RgsbSc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZPmTomvO4c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVVT9tgJY3o&feature=related

eastman

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:12:16 +0800

---"PSB were really kind to let them go like this"? What? Beijing cops were not that kind at all. Is it kind of them letting unbiased reporters sit in a sauna van of 40 degree under the burning sun, with their tiny groins BBQed on the steet seats for some long hours! God, it is more cruel than Abu Ghraib, man! It remind me of the American cops beating up our Tibeten brothers into pulps. You know I hate cops. This Beijing cop should be grateful to have only one kick landed on his groin, He should be treated as criminal and castrated together with war criminal Bushit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owxCSs86Aa0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmAKnw7AJw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbfA5q0QaNI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjffAE5iq-s&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZPmTomvO4c

ououou

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:59:04 +0800

the rudest people! the rudest people around the world!

steveballmer

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:15:25 +0800

You really shouldn't fool around with those guys, if you know what I mean! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

sirlogic

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:50:16 +0800

well... technically... the Olympics haven't started yet... not to be a stickler or anything...

booggerg

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:31:33 +0800

With the advent of recording technology and Internet, press freedom will indoubtably come to China. At this rate, it will probably take a generation for authoritarian mindset to go away.