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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:15 AM

Chinese authorities confiscate reporters notebooks and recorders

Wanting to make sure that nothing soils the positive image Beijing wants to put forth on the Olympics, Chinese journalists are now apparently under orders not to mention the Olympics and the murder of an American tourist in the same story.Kind of hard
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Monday, August 11, 2008 1:36 PM

Russian attacks on Georgian Internet

The tanks and bombs are getting the news but either buried or ignored in the stories are the attacks on the Georgian Internet infrastructure by the Russians.Media.ge reports the following: Normal 0 false false false
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Monday, August 11, 2008 1:03 PM

Fake and corrupt journalism in China

John Hopkins brought forward a piece in Forbes late last month on Dark Journalism. This is where real and fake journalists demand bribes to prevent bad news from coming out.Excerpt from the story:What happened in that brief encounter that could make
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 4:43 PM

Journalist killed in Georgian fighting

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Friday, August 08, 2008 10:59 AM

Journalists hit in fighting in Georgia (not the state)

From Reuters:Fighting rages in Georgian separatist capitalBy Margarita Antidze MEGVREKISI, Georgia (Reuters) - Fighting raged in and around the capital of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region on Friday as Georgian troops, backed by tanks
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:02 AM

Map of the victims in Tiananmen Square

A friend of mine in Hong Kong passed on a map that shows where 176 of the victims of the brutal crackdown in Tiananmen Square were killed.The map was made with the help of the Tiananmen Mothers, a group of Chinese who are seeking a full accounting of
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:25 AM

Breeching the Great Firewall of China: Software to the rescue

For reporters visiting China for the first time, getting around the Great Firewall of China might prove daunting. Even though Beijing has lifted some of the restrictions on the Internet -- notice the word "some" -- a large portion of the Internet remains
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:23 AM

Quote to remember and comments on the Great China Firewall

From the New York Times 8/2/08 at the end of an article about how more Internet sites might be opened up for access soon:Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing organizing committee, had said in an interview in Beijing in March: “The commitment we have
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:16 AM

China moves slightly to opening Internet -- for foreign journalists

It now looks as if some blocks against web sites have been lifted by the Chinese authorities.The folks inside the Olympics Village bubble can now visit the Amnesty International and BBC Chinese language sites.Filters on "subversive" words remain in place,
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