Beijing profiles the press ahead of 2008 Olympics

Posted on November 13, 2007 7:09 PM | | Comments (0)

By Anita Chang | The Washington Times
November 13, 2007

The Chinese government has created profiles on thousands of foreign journalists coming to report on next summer's Beijing Olympics and is gathering information on thousands more to put into a database, a top official said in comments published yesterday.

The profiles appeared to undermine promises made by Chinese leaders in 2001, when they were bidding for the games, that the event would lead to greater press freedoms.

The database with information on the 28,000 foreign journalists expected for the Olympics would be a reference for interview subjects, designed to protect them from being tricked or blackmailed by "fake reporters," Liu Binjie, minister of the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), was quoted as saying in the state-run China Daily newspaper.

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