What game is Murdoch playing? (Murdoch messing with the Olympics)

Helena Smith reports from Athens on how the Greeks are becoming angry over repeated attacks on the Olympics

Sunday May 16, 2004
The Observer

Has Rupert Murdoch declared war on Greece? After the Times 's latest sensational scoop, chronicling the ease with which two of its journalists breached Olympic security, many Greeks are asking just that.
The stunt, splashed and described in vivid detail in Friday's edition, is all the more graphic because Greeks had read all about it in equally vivid detail some 24 hours earlier. If the Athens government is to be believed, the two Times staff were picked up and arrested trying to prise their way into the main Olympic stadium long before they ever got inside.

Precisely because the arena is under construction - and resembles more of a building site than a venue - security is not yet in force and won't be until 1 July. Indeed, three days before the Times's intrepid attempts to break the 'Olympic ring of steel', I had taken the same route, walking across the car park and straight into the stadium, escorted by a Ghanaian gardener. It was broad daylight and the guardsman had waved us in, happily. All the details are in my notebook.

Following this month's embarrassing bombings, Olympic host Athens has got what it dreads most - a bad press. But no other group has covered Greece's perilous Olympic preparations as gleefully as News International.
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