Who is in charge of the foreign journalists?

I was just waiting for the fight to get started. My first thought was, when media started to report of efforts by the Beijing Olympic Comittee and the General Administration of the Press and Publication to put files of 28,000 foreign journalists into a database, what is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs going to do about it?
Now Richard Spencer reports about this unavoidable turf fight within the Chinese bureaucracy. The ministry of foreign affairs claims jurisdiction over the foreign journalists and won't put them in any database, its spokesperson announced today.
Spencer notes:

I thought I would put that on record, but add that I think Mr Liu [the spokesperson] doth protest too much. We are all, indeed, beholden to the Foreign Ministry, and very nice people they are too, but they can't control what BOCOG or GAPP do with accreditation info any more than they can stop the police fining us for speeding.

This is, as we would call it, a gray area in China. Turf fights are not uncommon between different government entities, to put it mildly, but now the stakes are very high. When I started off as a foreign correspondent in Shanghai, under the Foreign Ministry, also the local branch of the propaganda ministry started to organize events for the foreign correspondents. Both would for example organize an annual outing somewhere else in China. In one year they organized the outing both in the same week, illustrating that they would not be talking to each other very much.