China: Inappropriate Disaster Responses

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    The Japanese media is abuzz with reports about the horrendous earthquake aftermath in China right now. But this post isn’t about the humanitarian aid controversies from a government perspective but rather how private individuals and companies are upsetting people right now.
    First, there are reports that a magazine did a very odd pictorial. Via this article:

    A Chinese magazine has been shut down for printing pictures of scantily-clad women posing in rubble for a special report on the country’s devastating earthquake, officials said Wednesday. The New Travel Weekly, a small lifestyle magazine, ran photos of sultry models in their underwear amid the debris in an issue that hit the stands on Monday – the first of three days of national mourning.The press and publication department of the southwestern city of Chongqing, where the magazine was based, said it decided to close the magazine down for “rectification.” The department said the magazine “seriously violated propaganda discipline and went against social morals” and the report constituted an “extremely evil social influence.”

    Editors have been sacked.

    And one of the most discussed videos on Youtube is the following, where a girl rants about how annoying all the news about the disaster is, among other offensive and virulent grumblings. Rumor on the net is that she is under police custody, perhaps against her will. If you click through to youtube, there is a translation/synopis, but I’m not sure how accurate it is.
    Update: I’ll show you Ricegirl’s interpretation first, as is is more salient:


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