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A recent BMW post, featuring a cartoon by David Donar of Political Graffiti, was featured today in The New York Times.
A link to Flame in Hand, Chinese Conquer Everest, a post I published Friday, appeared as the last headline listed under the section, Olympic Torch Headlines Around the World.
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Olympic Torch Post Highlighted in New York Times
May 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: · 2008 Olympics, Beijing Games, BMW, Bob McCarty, Bob McCarty Writes, BobMcCarty.com, China, david donar, mount everest, mt everest, New York Times, olympic torch, political graffiti, The New York Times, tibet, torch
Flame in Hand, Chinese Conquer Everest
May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
In a report yesterday about Chinese efforts to ascend Mt. Everest with the Olympic torch in hand, it took Associated Press a long time to get past the fluff and address the controversy surrounding the propaganda-filled run-up to the 2008 Beijing Games. Beginning with the article’s 12th paragraph, AP wrote this:
Tibetan activists continued to [...]
Tags: · 2008, beijing, Beijing Games, China, Chinese Government, everest, mount everest, mt everest, olympic torch, Olympics, political graffiti, students for a free tibet, tibet, tibetans
What is Sniper’s Role at Mount Everest?
April 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Wired reports that climbers on Mount Everest’s south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China’s Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next week. More incredibly, the magazine reports, one blogger “saw lots of military staff and one solider carrying a very sophisticated sniper type of [...]
Tags: · 2008, 2008 Summer Olympics, beijing, China, chinese biathlon, chinese security, himalyas, mount everest, mounteverest.net, mt everest, nepal, olympic torch, Olympics, sherpa, sniper, wired, Wired.com
Olympics Controversy Nothing New
April 20th, 2008 · No Comments
The controversy generated by the Olympic Flame World Tour has captured many headlines in recent weeks. This morning, Associated Press reported that the flame had arrived in Malaysia ahead of a relay in which it will be guarded by 1,000 police watching for protests against China’s Tibet crackdown and human rights record. But [...]
Tags: · 2008 Summer Olympics, ancient greeks, Associated Press, beijing olympics, China, greeks, Human Rights, London, malaysia, New York Times, olympic flame, olympic torch, Olympics, olympics ceremony, Paris, political grafitti, protesters, San Francisco, the naked olympics, tibet, tony perrottet
