Gold Medal Photoshopping
Aug 15, 2008
Photoshop contest website Worth1000 has a competition to create the most dangerous Olympic sports. h/t:TrendHunter
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Opening On Steroids: Fake Fireworks, Mimed Singing
Aug 12, 2008
This list of Zhang Yimou’s “Performance Enhancing” techniques to achieve that dazzling Olympics opening ceremony keeps growing. China lawyer Liu Xiao Yuan considers suing (Someone care translate it?) Here’s a few of the complaints echoing around. 1- Mimed Singing 2- Fake Fireworks 3- Better production for US viewers 4- NEW ALLEGATION: The song “You and
Fake Mickey Mouse Joins the Olympics
Aug 10, 2008
Forget those athletes, Japanese media has been going heavy on the appearance of fake Mickey Mouse at the Olympics. Classic denial translated by Pink Tentacle from the Yomiuri: When asked about the resemblance to Mickey, a spokesperson replied, “They have square holes in their ears. They are not copies.” The spokesperson suggested the statues are
Amusing Coverage of Opening Ceremony
Aug 10, 2008
The Globe and Mail ran the above amusing cartoon while, elsewhere in Canada, the Edmonton Sun’s Terry Jones could not praise the opening ceremony highly enough. Wonder if even the China Daily had a lead this strong. Olympic opening ceremonies the best ever By Terry Jones, Edmonton Sun BEIJING – If any future Olympic Games
Athlete-Bloggers at Beijing Olympics – Updated List
Aug 10, 2008
To follow the Olympics via the participants, I have been searching for Olympic bloggers and have found a few sources, largely thanks to help from the ever-lively crowd on Twitter at #080808. US Rowing – Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal’s China Blog has 2 Olympian Bloggers so far, both from the US Rowing Team:
2 Parent Policy for Chinese Olympic Athlete
Aug 9, 2008
Funny story by Geoffrey Fowler in the Wall Street Journal revealing an official Olympic sponsor with advertisements that are not entirely truthful (Cue: sounds of pained shock and horror). Turns out that the “parents” pictured here with hurdler and gold-medal hopeful Liu Xiang’s are fake. The ad, for the milk drink Satine, reads: “A delicacy
Best way to follow the Olympics
Aug 9, 2008
In case you are not already doing so, Twitter has been a great way to follow (and participate in) Olympics coverage. For the opening ceremony a large group of us wrote 140 character postings with the agreed tag #080808. Lonnie Hodge – who also Twitted – blogged about the outcome: And yesterday’s hash mash (a
BBC Busted for Outdated China Oppression Image
Aug 2, 2008
The anti-CNN community busted the BBC for using a photo on July 29 showing Chinese police looking at a monitor that has been used by the BBC on multiple stories reaching back to at least August 26, 2000. An example of stock photo usage gone wrong. (Or perhaps they couldn’t get any more policemen to
Japanese Don’t Care About the Olympics
Jul 17, 2008
A survey released by Mindshare shows Asia – Japan especially – is not so excited about the Olympics as China. – For Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the FIFA World Cup is more exciting than the Olympics. – Japan is the least enthusiastic about the Olympics, with 33% saying they would
Sophie Richardson: Olympics Coverage Guide for Journalists
Jul 7, 2008
Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director of Human Rights Watch, interviewed by Hugo Restall, Editor of The Far Eastern Economic Review about the Chinese government’s attitude towards media. Richardson recently published a new report, “China’s Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media Out of Tibet and Other ‘Sensitive’ Stories.”
Beijing vs TV Networks: Olympic Media Showdown
Jun 9, 2008
Let the games begin! With the August 8 opening of the Olympic games only weeks away, confidential meeting minutes reveal ongoing battles between TV networks and Beijing Olympic organizers. In the meeting, which took place a week or so ago, points of contention included new limits on live coverage and allegations that shipments of TV
CNN seeks freelance reporters on Digital China
Jun 6, 2008
Kevin Drew, supervising editor Asia Pacific for CNN International’s website, is looking for good freelancers out of China to report for the CNN Olympics microsite. He is particularly keen for stories about how new technologies are being used to cover the Olympics, but is also interested in great stories on other Olympic-related topics. Contact Kevin
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