(Global Pulse: July 31, 2008) China promised journalists complete freedom at the Olympics. But the press found that crashing Beijing's great wall of censorship was an Olympic sport in itself. Did media control, doping and a "tough love" charm offensive tarnish China's Olympic gold?
SOURCES: CCTV, China; Al Jazeera, Qatar; BBC, U.K.; DW-TV, Germany; TV5, France
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