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A recent trip to 绥中, an unremarkable town near Liaoning's border with Hebei entailed a 5 hour bus ride. Fortunately the bus was only half full providing ample opportunity to catch up with some reading. Earlier in the week I'd heard of diesel shortages around Liaoning province, yet service stations we passed didn't seem to have any major problems, until we came to here, somewhere near Yingkou:
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When the Sichuan earthquake hit, Teacher Fan ran for his life, running out of the school building, likely a gut survival reaction, a description of which he notably posted on his personal blog, raising a storm of fury and moral criticism. It is also notable that others who did the same thing but did not admit it largely escaped national fury.

Recently interviewed he defended his position, but perhaps most interesting was the closing line in the ESWN translation of his interview.

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The
Bank of England recently released a paper examining the effect trade
with
China has had on UK inflation which draws important conclusions on
regional
wage inflation in China and how increasing trade with China affects
Western inflation in general.  Also of note are two further papers, one
examining the effect on the US economy (written in 2004) and one more
general paper looking at the effects on OECD countries (2008).
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The mainstream Western opinion of China, it's media and the government is misaligned with local opinion. Chinese, particularly the vocal, online youth were outraged when Jack Cafferty called Chinese "thugs and goons" (later claiming he meant to infer the Chinese Government). Anti-CNN.com was created, not just to criticise CNN but as a focal ground for all perceived fake, exaggerated or incorrect reporting in China, especially during the recent Tibet turmoil.
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China in Depth isn't the only great resource about China or Economics.

The Independent have an excellent article on how economic growth is affecting both people's lives and their lifestyles:
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Quantum theory tells us we will never be able to observe the exact position and the exact state of a particle. Much may be the same with financial risk.

Hopefully most of China's netizens will draw the obvious conclusion: that in the end you shouldn't trust any information source - Western or Chinese, professional or amateur, digital or analog - until and unless they have earned your trust.

"In our view, the current news blockade cannot gain credit with the Chinese people or the international community, and is harmful to the credibility of the Chinese government,"