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Despite all the security around the Games, two protesting
groups did manage to get their messages out yesterday. Students
for a Free Tibet managed to climb two light standards near the
heavily guarded, iconic Bird's Nest Stadium and display pro-Tibet banners for
more than an hour. Later in the day, three Americans protesting
China's birth control policies tried to hold a press conference and unfurl a
banner on Tiananmen Square before being hauled off and then released fairly
soon after.
There was coverage of both events and, with the many
foreign cameras around, the new guidelines for police behavior I
mentioned a few days ago were clearly in effect. When things yesterday got up
close and personal with the Americans on Tiananmen, rather than shove
cameramen's throats or block their lenses with their hands as they had with
First to yesterday's story was not a well-known media outlet. The beat was scored by what I
have to say was my favorite coverage--for its guerrilla
approach if not its technical proficiency. (I was a TV cameraman for
about 10 years, with Visnews--now Reuters TV--and then NBC.) Qik.com vlogger Noel Hidalgo
(he works under the handle "noneck") filed video of the
I got my headsup about
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