An Olympic oversight (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted by Tim Johnson Fri Jul 25, 2:10 AM ET so The censors sometimes fall asleep on the job. Yesterday’s Beijing News had an interesting article about an Associated Press reporter, Liu Xiangcheng, who has witnessed 30 years of changes in China’s capital. Along with the article were several great photos. Unfortunately for some poor censor and some journalists, who will certainly be taken to the woodshed, one of the photos was of Beijing residents rushing wounded people away from Tiananmen Square on the back of a flat-bed tricycle. While the article didn’t say so, the photo is clearly from the Tiananmen bloodbath on June 4, 1989, when troops in and near the square opened fire on their Chinese brethren, killing hundreds, and maybe more than 1,000, pro-democracy protesters. China’s Communist Party has tried to expunge this... [read full story]