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Hong Kong media strut independence with Olympic coverage


This does not seem to have abated in this special administrative region of China even as anger grows across the country over what is seen as unfair criticism in the Western media, and as the mainland press pumps out glowing, patriotic reports of the Olympic efforts.


Although local television spent hours with live broadcasts of the torch relay on Friday, not all media played along. That morning, local newsstands were covered with photos of a local bus crash, not the Olympics. The government-linked China Daily was alone in running with a shot of marching Chinese troops, and a several-page-long photo essay with headlines like "Keep Olympic Joy Flowing."


HONG KONG: The place where the Chinese concept "one country, two systems" is most obviously played out in Hong Kong is in its boisterous media. Daily papers and local TV reports here regularly carry photos and reports that would be banned on the mainland.


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