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Chinese audiences will see the Beijing Olympics about 10 seconds later than everybody else after Chinese authorities instituted a 10-second delay for broadcasts of the games to avoid ¡°undesirable¡± incidents being seen by the masses, Hong Kong¡¯s Ming Pao Daily News reported Tuesday.
Quoting sources, the Ming Pao reported the order came from the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
South Korean skaters after winning the silver medal in the woman¡¯s 5,000 m short-track relay in the Winter Asian Games in Changchun on Jan. 31, 2007, held up stenciled placards at the winner's podium which said, "Mt. Baekdu belongs to us." The symbol-freighted Korean mountain, which is named in the national anthem, is known as Changbaishan there.
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A Chinese military band conductor beats during the opening of the 'Beijing Olympics and Paralympics Games-time Work Mobilisation Rally' at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday./REUTERS
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The incident expressed protest against the Chinese government's so-called Northeast Project, an attempt to co-opt the history of the ancient Korean kingdoms of Koguryo and Barhae, using Mt. Baekdu as the stage backdrop for the games.
The Ming Pao said the event ¡°angered Chinese officials and citizens¡± and for a time soured diplomatic relations. The 10-second delay aims to avoid broadcasting ¡°undesirable incidents¡± such as anti-Chinese slogans or demonstrations, it added.
China Central Television (CCTV) is in charge of distributing Beijing Olympics broadcasts to all TV stations across China.
On March 24, when the Olympic torch was ignited in Athens, CCTV edited and deleted a scene of a group of Tibetan protesters intruding into the venue when Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organization Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), spoke, by delaying the broadcast.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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