The Black and White blog has a very interesting post:
After seven grinding exciting years of preparation, the Olympics are mercifully sadly over. So what did the foreigners think of it all? The “western media” are sometimes accused of prejudice against China, focusing too much on the negative and ignoring the positive. Not so Charles McGrath of the New York Times who had nothing bad at all to say about the Beijing Olympics. At least he didn’t have anything bad to say after the Beijing Evening News had got through translating and improving his work, in the style of Xinhua’s One-Edged Double-Edged Sword.
To read more:
http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/08/28/how-the-new-york-times-should-have-covered-the-olympics/
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