The 2008 Beijing Olympics a vast hunting prairie for journalism

 

The Beijing 2008 Olympics are vast hunting prairies for all sorts of journalism. Will the Chinese Republic allow free journalism? 

…..”Beijing Olympics may give the impression of effortless efficiency but a fug as thick as the smog that chokes the city still hangs over media freedoms at the event.”…

….. “covering the 24th Olympiad, yet it has so far made no provision for the thousands of visitors - equipped with DV cameras, photo-phones, Blackberry devices and laptops - who will want to report events - sporting and non-sporting - on their blogs, or send images to citizen-journalism agencies.”….

….. “The sheer number of citizen journalists that could descend on Beijing….has led some to believe that controlling them could be beyond the notoriously long arms of China’s media authorities.”…..

….. “Maybe citizen journalism will come into its own [in Beijing], because it’s so unstoppable.” (see full article)

  On the dark side of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, as of December 1, 2006  there are 31 journalist imprisoned in the Chinese Republic 

 (see here) and (here).

      

Shi Tao.(see here)             Yang Jianli