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Video: The Beijing Olympics and Media Freedom

Beijing based freelance reporter, Jocelyn Ford produces an eight minutes short documentary on the Beijing Olympics and Media Freedom. She includes broad views in China about media freedom, from an Olympic media center Chinese official to an American human rights lobbyist, from a Chinese professor who experienced 1989 to young Chinese born in late 1980’s. The message is,” yes, Olympics is exciting. But China has a lot to do to improve its image and opens itself to the world.” Via Youtube:

• Posted by Wu Nan
• May 2, 2008 10:21 AM
• Category: CDT Highlights, Information Revolution, Translation, World
• Tags: Beijing, foreign correspondents, Olympic preparation, video

Origin: Jocelyn Ford, Youtube

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