BBC chiefs are said to be fuming after two years of “frustrating” negotiations with Chinese Olympic organisers resulted in a watered-down deal that limits the movement of broadcasters around Beijing. What do you expect? China does not want the repeat of TAM uprising which occurred during Gorbachev's Beijing visit, covered live by international press at TAM.
Furthermore, Chinese crowds and pedestrians would be managed to the extent that N. Korea manages theirs when foreigners visit Pyongyang. It would be a quiet Olympic except CCTV(China Central TV)'s non-stop coverage of Chinese athletes' latest triumph and their ballooning medal count, interspersed with mega nationalistic rhetoric.
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2 posted on
07/09/2008 5:29:41 PM PDT by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
What a charade.
Looks like I’ll have to take up reading books, when I’m not here, that is. ;-)
3 posted on
07/09/2008 5:30:30 PM PDT by
NormsRevenge
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I have no interest in the Chicomm games and since the Indians have conceded the season I guess I’m waiting on NFL training camp and preseason:(.
4 posted on
07/09/2008 5:48:53 PM PDT by
bonehead4freedom
(No I can't vote for McCain,he's Arnold without the accent!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
A little off topic...but the article on Michael Phelps that is on the same page is a good read. What an athlete.
5 posted on
07/09/2008 6:07:13 PM PDT by
goldfinch
To: indcons; JACKRUSSELL
Under the host city agreement with the International Olympic Committee, Beijing must allow unfettered access for foreign media. Chinese officials, who have argued that protests outside the sports venues should not concern broadcasters, face accusations of a wilful breach of this contract. Lying ChiComs PING!
6 posted on
07/09/2008 6:47:22 PM PDT by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: TigerLikesRooster
There is no Olympics this year in this house. We'll watch old Dragnet episodes on Hulu.com.
7 posted on
07/09/2008 7:02:06 PM PDT by
GAB-1955
(Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
There will be major news stories coming out of China with its Olympics. They won’t however, have anything to do with sports. It’s gonna be ugly.
11 posted on
07/10/2008 6:31:49 AM PDT by
toddlintown
(Morons; all of 'em.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
14 or Fight! LOL. remember that movie? “Wild in the Streets?”
12 posted on
07/10/2008 10:26:47 AM PDT by
2harddrive
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