Get the word out, the Olympics are coming! But that's not the real news - what is important is that "The journalists are coming" and they know that we are sick to the back teeth with embedded reporting.

There is a proud tradition of investigative journalism throughout the print media in particular, and with China opening itself up to millions of visitors it will have no choice but to allow thousands of journalists in too. With objective information comes change (http://earth-blog.bravejournal.com/entry/16490), and there will be information, whether the Chinese government likes it or not.

With the furore over the capture of Alan Johnson in Palestine it will not be possible for China to "disappear" journalists it feels are unfriendly to the regime. It will have no choice but to either change or to lock everyone out.

Keith Farnish
www.theearthblog.org