Fake photo fallout: Chinese officials embrace social media to explain mixup

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[nuconvert]

One of the worst doctored photographs in Internet history? That's the emerging verdict on a clumsily altered photo of bureacrats in the sleepy county of Huili, in southwest China's Sichuan province. In an ill-fated PR stunt, the trio of area government officials are shown appearing to float over the surface of a road, casting nary a shadow in a bid to promote a local road construction project.

"The saga began on Monday when Huili's website published a picture showing, according to the accompanying story, three local officials inspecting a newly completed road construction project this month," the Guardian's Peter Walker reports.

[a fool in paradise]

This looks like they used Photo Chop.

[Daffynition]

Defined: Embracing social media

[a fool in paradise]

we can save a lot of taxdollars if Obama would fake his many many photo-ops and trips abroad.

China found a way to save on their moon voyage.

[Daffynition]

[GeronL]

Moon is more of a Korean name isn’t it?

[the invisib1e hand]

Damn that's good work, man!

[PA Engineer]

Wow. You are a master.

[alicewonders]

That's hilarious. I actually Laughed Out Loud!

[lonevoice]