There's a story in The New York Times, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/sports/olympics/14protest.html

In the American media, we rely on print journalists to report stories like these. The broadcasters who carry the Olympics will not touch human rights issues over the next two weeks.

I wish that more would be said at an official level about issues like these. The irony, of course, is that the practice – greatly expanded over the past eight years – of establishing “free speech zones” undercuts American credibility on this issue.

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