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Seems the surest way these days to get a headline or your 15 seconds of fame is to:

1)be a journalist covering a critic of China;

2)be any kind of critic of China.

The runup in press coverage of the Beijing Olympics has made me sick and tired and mad. To most of the American mainstream media, China remains behind a Bamboo Curtain, mired in Mao, a culture that's revolting, an oppressor of free thought, etc., etc., etc.