纽约时报造谣奥运记者受到死亡威胁!

考研男生

这篇社评造谣说至少有10个外国记者收到死亡威胁（虽没说直接来自政府官方，但上下文给读者这种感觉），最后要求奥委会在北京奥运会期间建立24小时热线让记者报道他们时时刻刻受到的“violations of media freedoms”
Editorial
China’s Unreality TV

New York Times


Published: July 22, 2008
China has gone to extraordinary lengths to spruce up its image before next mo
nth’s Olympics: shuttering factories to reduce air pollution, mopping up alg
ae in sailing waters, harassing critics and threatening journalists.

To win the right to host the Games, Beijing promised to expand press freedoms
for foreign reporters and implied that opening China to the world would help
expand human rights more generally.

We will never know whether China’s leaders intended to keep their word. What
we do know is that the International Olympic Committee, corporate sponsors a
nd governments around the world should have held China to its word. They have
not, and China has read their silence as complicity.

China has jailed critics, denied visas and threatened news organizations that
negative coverage could jeopardize their chance to cover the Games.

According to Human Rights Watch, at least 10 foreign journalists, including N
ewsweek’s China bureau chief, have received anonymous death threats since th
ey reported on the violence in Tibet. Government authorities have also used p
olice intimidation and bribery to try to silence parents demanding an account
ing for the reprehensibly shoddy construction that caused schools to crumble,
killing thousands of children in the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province.
Thousands of people have been evicted from their homes in Beijing as the city
cleans up for international TV crews.

Corporate sponsors for the Games seem determined to look the other way. Most
world leaders, including President Bush, also have been too silent. We accept
Mr. Bush’s decision to attend the opening ceremonies, but we see no sign th
at he got anything for it .

Mr. Bush has correctly denounced the genocide in Darfur and is pressing for i
nternational sanctions on Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe over brutally stealing la
st month’s presidential election. China, however, continues to enable both M
r. Mugabe and Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Just last week, Beij
ing faulted the world court prosecutor for bringing charges of genocide again
st Mr. Bashir for his role in Darfur’s many horrors, and it vetoed an Americ
an-backed United Nations Security Council resolution to put sanctions on Mr.
Mugabe and his henchmen.

Apart from China, no one deserves criticism more than the International Olymp
ic Committee, the so-called guardian of the Olympic movement, which has indul
ged Beijing at every turn.

The committee still has time to put in place minimal protections — like a 24
-hour hot line for journalists to report violations of media freedoms. Even w
ith all of the intimidation, human rights advocates (and maybe some athletes)
will likely try to use the Games to protest China’s repression. Beijing nee
ds to know that the world will be watching how it handles that bit of reality
TV.

土司巫师

人家说的话有的是事实 不过其根本用意很明确  就是打压中国……………… 不过作为大国民众我们要胸怀广阔 让这些小孩子玩玩吧…………