From Reuters:
Foreign journalists covering the Beijing Olympics must take care to avoid placing Chinese assistants and news sources at risk of arrest when covering sensitive topics, a U.S. watchdog group said on Thursday.
The Committee to Protect Journalists also called on the International Olympic Committee to press China to honor promises of press freedom for the more than 21,500 foreign reporters covering the August 8-24 games — a pledge it said authorities ignored during recent unrest in Tibet.
“Past experience has shown that China tends to err on the side of heavy-handedness when it comes to media control and threats to the country’s image as a unified nation,” said the New York-based committee in a report.
“Reporters traveling to China should be aware of the risks to people they interview or hire, as well as the dangers they face themselves.”
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