Summary
On Saturday, reporters grilled IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies about the failure of organizers to provide an uncensored Internet, as promised. But Davies said the IOC could only encourage China to "move in the direction to give you the widest access possible."
When bidding for the Games in 2001, the secretary general of the Beijing Olympic Bid Committee, Wang Wei, said journalists covering the Games would have "complete freedom to report.""I've had some difficulties accessing websites about Falun Gong and Tibet," said Adalberto Leister, a reporter with Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest newspaper.See the full content of this document
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Press Freedom, Chinese Style
By Maureen Fan
BEIJING -- Three state-of-the-art Olympic media centres in Beijing have been equipped with rows of brand-new computers. Thousands of English-speaking volunteers stand at the ready, trained t...See the full content of this document
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