links for 2008-06-12

• Bob Dietz: Covering the Beijing Games? Expect to be Censored - Media on The Huffington Post
  "we are not as concerned with foreign journalists' safety as much as the safety of the people they interview and the young Chinese staff they will hire to act as assistants, fixers, translators and runners."
  (tags: china olympics humanrights media journalism press censorship)
• Accountability Central: Olympic Visitors' Data Is At Risk; Officials: China Targets Secrets In Laptops, PDAs
  "National security agencies are warning businesses and federal officials that laptops and e-mail devices taken to the Beijing Olympics are likely to be penetrated by Chinese agents aiming to steal secrets or plant bugs to infiltrate U.S. computer networks
  (tags: olympics security surveillance china chineseinternetresearch)
• Falling Short: Olympic Promises Go Unfulfilled As China Falters on Press Freedom
  Report by the Committee to Protect Journalists
  (tags: olympics china freespeech press journalism)
• 8 simple rules for succeeding on the Web - MarketWatch
  "There is no excuse for magazine editors and publishers to be uneasy about the Internet. They talk as if it's some strange, exotic instrument that nobody quite understands."
  (tags: magazines newspapers media internet newmedia)
• Welcome to the Starting Line - ProPublica
  "Our goal is to do stories that would otherwise escape notice and to follow up on work done by others that demands change or is being overlooked."
  (tags: journalism internet nonprofit)

Comments

[Charles Liu]

R, while not trying to justify Beijing's media censorship, I'd like to bring to your attention, perhaps, the ultimate form for censorship:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008002059_apiraqjournalistshooting.html

Shooting of journalist in Iraq justifiable.