Olympics no fast track to media freedom in China

25.08.2008

By Play the Game

Chinese Olympic Games organisers and the International Olympic Committee have been caught on the back-foot several times at daily press briefings in Beijing, by foreign journalists angry they're not enjoying the broad freedoms they were promised. It's led to hostile exchanges in the press room. But if the foreign press think they're making a permanent difference in China, analysts say they're wrong.

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342221.htm?tab=latest

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