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All hail the Olympic Games, except for those who praise them

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:35 AM by will
Xinhua headlines from the last 36 hours, almost all of which came to me in one Google news alert: Swiss media praise Beijing Olympic Games World leaders, media praise Beijing Olympics U.S. media praises "truly exceptional" Beijing Olympics Iranian media Read More...
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Foreign media vs. Wang Wei II, plus the trouble with transcripts

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 1:36 AM by will
Via the China Digital Times , this outstanding excerpt from the transcript of Wednesday's IOC/BOCOG press conference (the ninth in a wretched series, we are informed). I've excised some back and forth between the question and response: South China Morning Read More...
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Foreign media incidents during the Olympics: So much for detente

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 1:27 AM by will
The latest incident report from the Foreign Correspondents Club of China is out. It doesn't make for pretty reading: BEIJING: OFFICERS ROUGH UP AP PHOTOGRAPHERS, SEIZE MEMORY CARDS August 20, 2008: Two Associated Press photographers attempting to cover Read More...
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Olympic pavilions deconstructed

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:43 AM by will
For those who are a bit weary of the whole idea of corporate pavilions, Media magazine has a witty review of the pavilions of all of the Olympic TOP sponsors. Each is helpfully compared to the Olympic athlete or icon that it most resembles. Two examples: Read More...
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Olympic match-up II: Foreign press vs. BOCOG spokesman Wang Wei

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:11 AM by will
This New York Times article is a few days old, but I didn't have time to get to it when it first came out. Apparently some of the press conferences got a little scratchy as journalists got frustrated with BOCOG's oblique responses to any question not Read More...
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Could the Bird's Nest become the Coca-Cola National Stadium of China?

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:46 PM by will
Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on efforts by the operators of China's gleaming, new Olympic sports facilities to sell the naming rights. According to the article, six multinationals are competing for naming rights to the National Stadium/Bird's Read More...
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Why child-singing-gate is a PR perfect storm -- Amended

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:52 AM by will
Amended: Sorry--this wasn't meant to be published. It was a placeholder and a few notes for a possible full-length post. Apologies to all those who thought I'd got lazy and decided to move the tweet format into my regular blog posts. However, for posterity, Read More...
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21 Olympic edicts from the Chinese propaganda department

Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:29 PM by will
As published by the Sydney Morning Herald . No link to a Chinese version, no citation of a source, and no way of confirming if these are genuine. But they look pretty credible and consistent with prior guidelines from the propaganda bureau. Nothing surprising Read More...
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Olympic complaints: Po-faced denials hitting their limits?

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:00 PM by will
From the Sydney Morning Herald : Organisers had repeatedly claimed that internet would not be censored during the Games but at the press conference a Wall Street Journal journalist produced his laptop and showed that sites such as the BBC in China and Read More...
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Hopeless adventures in vulgarity control

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:04 AM by will
The downside of scanning something like thirty Google alerts a day is that you lose productivity and fill your head with random crap. The upside is that you sometimes notice strange juxtapositions of news. For example, the following two Reuters stories: Read More...
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Attending the Olympics as a PR exercise

Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:59 PM by will
The Wall Street Journal's Mei Fong writes on the parade of corporate grandees attending the Olympics . A couple of quotes frame the imperative of attending for those execs who have big business in China: Lured by the growing importance of the Chinese Read More...
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Spontaneous Olympic joy by decree and other news

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Cliff Coonan has a story in showbiz trade Variety that examines the broadcasting problems I posted about last week. The article is something of an omnibus piece on current Olympic issues. Among other things, it gets into the organizers' efforts to develop Read More...
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Rumblings of trouble from the Olympic Broadcast Center

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:19 AM by will
Imagethief has been hearing for the last few months from friends in positions to know that the setup of Beijing Olympic Broadcast Centre is not going well. "Total chaos," and "Way behind Athens at this stage," are some of the not-so-kind comments. I was Read More...
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The quake changes the game for the Olympics

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Have a read of this article in the Wall Street Journal that looks at the reaction of the activists that have been protesting the Beijing Olympics to China's devastating earthquake: Before the earthquake, China's image abroad had taken a beating. The first Read More...
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Was the torch relay a success or failure?

Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 8:03 PM by will
That's a good question, and it was posed in an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal by Geoffrey Fowler. As the article notes, the answer is "yes", depending on who you ask: Was China's Olympic-torch relay around the world a miserable failure Read More...
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