I believe what China did was right. While it did protect the traditional journalist, it discouraged those who thought of covering the event, which hurt the growth of journalism. They removed whatever freedom and independence there was in journalism by closing the area off. The Chinese media crossed the line on this one.
I do understand why they did what they did. They tried to control the coverage of the incident, but that does not give them the right to deny thousands of citizen journalists the right to deny access to the event.
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