Song Shi-nan, a blogger from the hipster Bullog blogging community, was blogging in Chengdu when an earthquake began swaying his apartment building and his computer screen on May 12. "I went to the balcony and saw all the buildings around were shaking…I rushed downstairs and saw many people gathering there, mostly women, children and elderly.…" A few hours after the quake struck, Song wrote, "there might be a blackout soon, and we must get out. So I took out the camping stuff and thought maybe I should just go camping with my wife tonight."
Song found it outrageous that TV news reporting on the earthquake was still emphasizing that Beijing's main Olympics stadium, the "Bird's Nest," had suffered no damage from the earthquake, as thousands of people were dying elsewhere in the nation. In the meantime, his TV screen was showing that in the worst hit areas in southern China's Sichuan province, middle school buildings collapsed in villages and parents were digging into the wreckage trying to find their children. More...
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