Comments on: A grilling at the Olympics http://www.chinamediablog.com/2008/08/14/11180/ 中国媒体博克 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:51:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Daily Bagel http://www.chinamediablog.com/2008/08/14/11180/comment-page-1/#comment-28435 Daily Bagel Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:20:09 +0000 tag:washingtonbureau.typepad.com://888eac3691a6a5a14b732b5e9945ccfa#comment-28435 To address the issue of the "embarrassing" performance to date: there's a story in The New York Times, too, about how popular the protest zones are: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/sports/olympics/14protest.html In the American media, we rely on print journalists and foreign media to report stories like these. The broadcasters who carry the Olympics will not touch human rights issues over the next two weeks. I wish that more would be said at an official level about issues like these. The irony, of course, is that the practice -- greatly expanded over the past eight years -- of establishing "free speech zones" undercuts American credibility on this issue. <a href="http://dailybagel.wordpress.com" title="http://dailybagel.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow"> To address the issue of the "embarrassing" performance to date: there's a story in The New York Times, too, about how popular the protest zones are:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/sports/olympics/14protest.html

In the American media, we rely on print journalists and foreign media to report stories like these. The broadcasters who carry the Olympics will not touch human rights issues over the next two weeks.

I wish that more would be said at an official level about issues like these. The irony, of course, is that the practice — greatly expanded over the past eight years — of establishing "free speech zones" undercuts American credibility on this issue.

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