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Redacting the Olympics


Submitted by Jim Brown on September 9, 2008 - 11:41am


A great example of China's "filtering" (or "copy editing") of information.

Link via Spinuzzi.

 

Speaking Out About Chinese Infidelity


Submitted by Jim Brown on January 3, 2008 - 1:11pm


When Zhang Bin took the stage to launch China's Olympics television channel, he probably didn't foresee his wife showing up to steal his thunder...and to announce that he was cheating on her. However, her critique was about more than his "improper relationship":

As Zhang talked enthusiastically into the cameras before a studio audience, a small woman in a brown duffel coat clambered on stage, bore down on him and grabbed his microphone...