Olympic medals for propaganda and self censorship

Scoopit!

George Packer in his blog at The New Yorker comments on the Chinese propaganda success at the Olympics and the self censorship of the media, in particular NBC.

A brief extract:-

What rankles me is that the Chinese government’s extremely effective full-court press against any negative moment marring the coming-out party has hardly been remarked upon. Has NBC mentioned the blanket denial of citizens’ petitions to protest? The old women sentenced to re-education camps for daring to complain about poor compensation for their destroyed houses?

NBC are not the only ones. Adam would venture to suggest that TVNZ would share medal honours with NBC.