Questions over Chinese press freedom

Updated August 20, 2008 20:45:17

Foreign journalists covering the Olympics in Beijing have been giving the organisers almost daily grillings on their freedom to report the Games. There were angry exchanges over the beatings of at least three international reporters trying to cover protests in the capital and elsewhere in China. But analysts say the 16-thousand foreign reporters in China at the moment are wrong if they believe their presence will make a lasting difference to media freedom.

Presenter: Corinne Podger
Speaker: David Bandurski, reporter for Far Eastern Economic Review; Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch, Washington