China reproaches foreign media over Tibet coverage

Over the weekend, the government allowed Chinese Web sites, which are usually heavily censored for political content, to post sharp critiques of foreign media reports about Tibet and to show graphic, violent images of Tibetans looting and attacking ethnic Han Chinese in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on March 14.

The images have fueled outrage in China and led to a flurry of Web postings vehemently critical of Tibetans.

State-controlled news media have been allowed to report from Tibet and neighboring areas where violent protests occurred.

But foreign journalists have been denied access to Tibet and blocked from reaching neighboring regions with large Tibetan populations. Many foreign reporters who managed to get into Tibet after the riots were forced to leave.

Foreign journalists in China said those actions violated the government's pledge to give them greater press freedoms and access to the country in the months leading up to the Olympic Games.

"At a time when China is promising to become more open with the world, this is a big disappointment," said Jocelyn Ford, a freelance journalist in Beijing and chairwoman of the media freedoms committee of the Foreign Correspondents Club there.

That may happen as if the Tibetans can do it so can the Uighurs, there are other people who are living under repression in China...China would end up react by ruthlessly controlling these revolts...
The Olympics would be tightly controlled state media will show what is good...a lot of propaganda...