"The Communist Party sees reporters as the enemy, especially reporters with a camera," says Todd Carrel, a former reporter stationed in Beijing for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). On the third anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, he tried to film the scenes of memorial activities in Tiananmen Square. He was attacked by ten secret policemen wielding steel pipes wrapped in cotton cloth and was detained for three hours.
「中共視記者為敵人，尤其是帶有攝影機的記者」，曾任美國國家廣播公司駐北京記者柯達德自己的遭遇是，「六四」事件三周年他在天安門廣場試圖拍攝紀念周年的畫面，卻遭到十名秘密警察用外面裡著棉布的鋼管攻擊，扣押三小時後才被釋放。