There’s been a lot of coverage over the last couple of days about report that got leaked that was written by the Chinese government and give to state journalists re: coverage guidelines for the Beijing Olympic Games.
In all, there were 21 ‘guidelines” and some of them were pretty incredible:
-No reporting on the pro-Tibet independence movement.
-No interviews allowed at the three protest parks.
-No negative comments about the opening ceremony.
-No reporting on the cancer-causing mineral water
-Properly handle coverage of the China Olympic team: don’t overhype gold medals or issue predictions on medal numbers, keep a cool head on the team’s performance.
-Refrain from publishing opinion pieces at odds with the official propaganda line of the Chinese delegation.
Of course the existence of the report was denies by BOCOG, but yesterday all news reports of the faked opening ceremony song involving the little girl in a red dress were blacked out within China yesterday as Olympic officials staunchly defended the duplicitous act as an artistic decision.
And in what probably isn’t a coincidence, the day after the report broke, reporters showed up at the Main Press Center to find a Chinese tank stationed outside – and it’s been there ever since. That is one way to control the media that the Patriots and Bill Belichick haven’t event thought of (yet).
Nice… Let’s hope the U.S. doesn’t wait too long to get to this point. Media smedia – who needs them!?
Really amazing…. ugh…