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Bob Dietz called attention to the Chinese propaganda department's recent 21-point press directive, first reported by the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. The whole thing in English and Chinese is posted today at Berkeley's China Digital Times. Among the orders given to the domestic media during the Olympic Games is that they are not to report on the protest zones set up at three places around Beijing. This apparently holds true even if they are empty, which they are.
Journalists came under fire in their car on August 10 near Tskhinvali.
According to the Turkish
Daily News, Turkish journalist Recep Öztürk was wounded. It is not
clear who was shooting at them--the lines have been fluid as the Georgians and
Russians battle in South Ossetia . At least
three journalists have been killed and 10
injured since
fighting began last week.
At least three reporters have been killed covering the conflict in
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