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Floating Chinese government officials visit Marketplace
Local officials in China's Huili county wanted to show, in a picture, that they were diligently in inspecting a newly built highway. So, on Monday, Huili's website published a picture showing, according to the accompanying story, local officials at the highway, looking at the progress. Except they didn't use a real photograph to illustrate their point. The city instead used a picture of three high-ranking officials that were photoshopped onto a picture of the new road. But someone didn't do a very good job and the three men look like they're floating over the road.
The image has received mass ridicule, and is being called one of the worst-doctored photographs in Internet history.
When calls began rolling into the Huili public relations department, the explanation was almost as silly as the image itself. The three men actually did visit the road in question, but the photographer was not satisfied with the resulting pictures. So he decided to combine the best two.
"A government employee posted the edited picture out of error... The county government understands the wide attention, and hope to apologize for and clarify the matter," a Huili official told the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Here are some of our favorite floating Chinese officials.
And of course, producer Jolie Puidokas, and hosts Jeremy Hobson and Steve Chiotakis.
When I was growing up, many years ago, there was a fear that communism and the Chinese(government) in particular were threatening to take over the world. Now, there is a fear that we are losing our competitive edge over China, and are thus implementing an education model based on Chinese methods of testing, testing, testing. This photo sums up what we are heading for.
Picture a people totally lacking creativity, patting themselves on the back for their accomplishments in productivity. Keep in mind that my comment is in regard to our collective approach to education and not as a criticism of Chinese citizens.
Wow, I am amazed that a nation like China could not find some teens to do a better job photoshopping. This makes me fear the "Chinese Economic Powerhouse" a lot less if they can't even fake a photo.
I'm sure this kind of thing happens all the time, people being added to photo events or removing them here in the US.
Doug, you sound like one of those radical right-wing commies that I've heard about. You've probably even gone so far to rip Wallace stickers off of cars.
I bet Hackett isn't even your real name. You're probably just another one of those hackers who's jealous of the Chinese.
You ever think that Communist China tries too hard to impress the world?
If you can, PLEASE, I'm at work so I can't do this from my phone. Make a demotivational poster out of the original picture. Have the larger caption read MEANWHILE IN CHINA
and the smaller caption read GRAVITY PROBLEMS.
