From WNYKYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

In April, this was Jacques Rogg, chairman of the International Olympic Committee.

We knew, of course, there was a controversy on human rights.

We are not naive.

We are not blind.

But we did the choice in the belief that the games would

open up China. And that is exactly what is happening now. You would not have the media attention

to what happens in Tibet or China, were it not that the games will be organized in August

here in Beijing. So we still believe that opening up the games will change China's society.

Maybe not today, but tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Maybe tomorrow, definitely not today.

On the advent of the Olympic Games in Beijing,

the Chinese government and the IOC were scandalized by the

revelation that the media covering the games will not have the unfettered internet access

they had been promised, the result of a backroom deal that appalled even the IOC's own

chief spokesman. In these short hours, I've made it quite plain that I've not conveyed

full information to the media, for which I apologize. I am concerned that I was put into that

position, but I really am not concerned about myself. I'm concerned that the international media,

whom we rely on, for reporting the games, has been caught by surprise.

That, for me, is unacceptable.

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