From: Black and White Cat
How the New York Times (should have) covered the Olympics
(line by line comparison)
New York Times Article
Beijing Puts On Happy Face for Games, Without Wrinkles
BEIJING — No one knows for sure how many people live in China, but the population is at least 1.3 billion. And thanks to increased longevity and the one-child policy, it is quickly aging. Demographers estimate that by 2050, more than a quarter of the people in China will be 60 or older.
Visitors to the Olympics, however, can be forgiven for thinking that China is a land of unnatural youthfulness where nobody is older than 30. About 100,000 volunteers, wearing blue “Beijing 2008” shirts, are working at these Games, staffing the security stations, driving golf carts, answering questions or just standing around and greeting people — “communicating smile and building harmony,” in the words of a Beijing organizing committee news release. Close to 90 percent of them are in their 20s. Older Chinese, and there are plenty in Beijing, are mostly out of sight.
Beijing Daily News "Translation"
《纽约时报》：北京给了世界一份青春，一个笑容
《纽约时报》11日报道说，没有人清楚究竟有多少人生活在中国，但是我们知道中国起码有13亿的人口。并且由于人类寿命的增长和计划生育的制定，中国人口正趋于老龄化。截止到2050年，25%以上的中国人将达到60岁以上。
但是，来到北京奥运会的游客却发现中国是一个年轻的国度，似乎没有人超过30岁。穿着“北京2008”的T恤衫，无论是在奥运场馆，还是安保部门，抑或是仅仅向外国友人表示欢迎的10万名奥运志愿者，都带着友好的笑容，近90%的志愿者只有20多岁。
Why do they do this? They even faked the title of the article. If the censors don't want the local people to read about certain topics, why even publish the article from NYT or elsewhere? Probably the CCP want to give the impression that even the foreign barbarians love China so there's no need to replace the corrupt communist government.
More editing disguised as translation.
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