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The Olympic torch is being passed from London to Paris to San Francisco. CBS' Mark Phillips covered the European angle from London while ABC's Laura Marquez awaited its arrival in the City by the Bay. NBC, whose sports division has the broadcast rights to cover the Beijing Games, contented itself with a brief video clip of the dousing of the flame in Paris and the spectacular pro-Tibetan signs festooning the Golden Gate Bridge.
ABC's Marquez reported that the flame's route through San Francisco has already been modified, skipping some of the city's "iconic sites" and missing out on a cable car ride. Beijing organizers had dubbed the relay the Journey of Harmony, CBS' Phillips said scornfully, "Not." He called the torch "too tempting and too handy a target" for protestors and speculated about a backlash against the major corporate sponsors of the Games. The top five firms--AT&T, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Anheuser Busch, General Motors--risk "being tainted by association" with China's policy of repression in Tibet.
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