Much as they loathed domestic publications for blindly following the guidelines of Xinhua, China’s state news agency, they were similarly contemptuous of Western media that mishandled the story. As a result, those Chinese who use the Internet as a source for news awakened to the fact that no account – Chinese or Western – is flawless.
例如，尽管在拉萨实行了新闻封锁，中国的互联网用户还是突破了新闻管治。尽管他们憎恶对中国国家通讯社新华社的导向言听计从，对于西方媒体错误处理事件同样也是很轻蔑。结果，那些把互联网作为新闻来源的人清醒了，原来无论西方还是中国的报导都不是十全十美的。这种怀疑是民主思维的基本特征，或许在推动政府在四川地震事件上更为开放上发挥了作用。