China Officials Give Up On Censoring World, Settle For Their Own Citizens
In a press conference held by the United States’ men’s volleyball team to discuss the tragic stabbing death of head coach Hugh McCutcheon’s father-in-law, members of the Chinese media had their notebooks and tape recorders confiscated, Australian newspaper The Age reports. It was an attempt by Beijing officials to prevent the reporters from linking the murder with the Olympics.
Censorship of Chinese media personnel is common practice in the country — “Earlier, reporters covering a small protest in Tiananmen Square by pro-Tibet US Christians were manhandled by plainclothes police who tried to take away microphones and notebooks,” The Age writes — but this was the first time it’s happened at an Olympic venue.
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