The International Herald Tribune reports that given China’s view that foreign media coverage of the Tibetans protests is unfair, Beijing has blocked access to journalists to affected regions as well as internet and television broadcasts of the situation.
China has sharply criticized foreign reporters here over their coverage of the riots in Tibet, accusing them of biased reporting and preventing them from traveling to Tibet or neighboring provinces to report on the unrest.
The campaign is the clearest sign of China’s concerns that the Tibet unrest, as well as anti-government protests over Darfur, could disrupt the Olympic Games this summer.
The government has issued no official statement criticizing the foreign media. But in recent days state-controlled newspapers, television stations and Web sites have been carrying articles and commentary with a common theme: foreign media distortions.
