中国媒体博克

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

Organisers had repeatedly claimed that internet would not be
censored during the Games but at the press conference a Wall
Street Journal journalist produced his laptop and showed that
sites such as the BBC in China and Hong Kong's Apple Daily were
being restricted. BOCOG media director Sun Weijia initially said
the problem lay with the journalist, and claimed all websites and
pages were available.

"There is no problem or issues," he said. But when confronted by
a large gathering of Western media all making the same complaint,
he said: "I will look into it and get back to you."

This, "Who you going to believe? Us or your own eyes?" approach is also being applied to the air pollution, which has been exquisitely awful the last few days (also here and, nicely, here):

"Our job is to decrease the pollution as much as possible, but
sometimes it is very common to have fog in Beijing at this time," Du
said.

"The air quality in August will be good," he said.

Must be acid fog, since that would explain the stinging eyes. Imagethief was looking forward to two months of blue skies during which he could go on lovely outdoor runs. Yesterday he could see  the "fog" swirling in cones under the lights inside his gym. Kind of makes the idea of running indoors for better health academic. Still, there's over a week to go until the Big Show. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. No one wants lovely blue skies more than me. Except of course for the athletes, organizers, IOC, broadcasters and visitors who have traveled thousands of miles to be here. OK, lots of people probably want blue skies more than me.* But I still want them pretty badly.

As for the journalists complaining (with apparent justification) about Internet access, three words: Virtual Private Network. It's not too late.

*With apologies to Monty Python in general and Graham Chapman in particular