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Organizing committee executive vice president slams media

Aug 22, 2008, 11:49 GMT

Beijing - The executive vice president of the Beijing organizing committee and Games spokesman on Friday criticized the media for negative reporting. Wang Wei told a press briefing that there was a bias from some of the journalists. He was reacting to negative questions directed at the organizing committee by journalists on human rights issues, internet censorship, pollution and the situation in Tibet. 'So many criticisms in this room just reflect how biased some of the media are about China, how little some of the media understand China.' He compared it with the reporting about the torch relay outside China, which focussed on demonstrations about the situation in Tibet, where Chinese officials had brutally clamped down on protests. 'History will show how correct the decision of the IOC was in 2001 in awarding the games to China.' Wang's statements came just a few hours after security officials detained two photographers from an international news agency and accused them of being part of a demonstration.

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JuicyjooAug 22nd, 2008 - 17:07:35

This Wang Wei character embarasses me as an asian american. He's just a fat shill for the CCP. Either that or he's a greedy, naive idiot that's bought into the CCP's ultra-nationalist propaganda.

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