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Article: Beijing Paralympics draw unprecedented media attention, but some say it's still not enough
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 5, 2008
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Beijing Paralympics draw unprecedented media attention, but some
say it's still not enough
BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- The impending Beijing Paralympic
Games, scheduled to open here on Saturday night, have attracted more
than 6,000 journalists, 2,960 of whom are foreign, but some believe
the Paralympians deserve still more media attention.
The Beijing Organizing Committee of the 29th Olympic Games
(BOCOG) recently announced that many of the world's leading media
organizations, such as AP, Reuters, Xinhua, AFP and Getty Images,
had dispatched journalists to cover the Beijing Paralympics.
Wang Wei, a BOCOG spokesman, said here on Friday at a press
conference that "the total number of media ...