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China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo Of Rare Antelope

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120363429707884255.html By JANE SPENCER and JULIET YE HONG KONG -- It turns out that train tracks in Tibet aren't where the antelope play. Earlier this week, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, issued an unusual public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train.
[in translation] "This is a photograph that everybody is familiar with. When I first saw it, my eyes lit up: the Tibetan antelopes and the train on the Qinghai-Tibet railroad appeared simultaneously in the eye of the camera.

EastSouthWestNorth: Top 10 News Photo Of The Year Was Faked

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080216_1.htm
See a larger version with comments here (Wall Street Journal) Like statistics in China, photographs "never lie." And they often do. http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/when-nature-wont-cooperate-in-china-photoshop.html

When Nature Won't Cooperate in China, Photoshop!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009957/Photoshop-picture-Chinese-officials-inspecting-road-ridiculed-world.html

Photoshop picture of Chinese officials inspecting road ridiculed around the world

By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 10:09 GMT, 1 July 2011 This could possibly be the worst doctored picture in internet history. Three Chinese officials appear to be proudly showing off their newly laid road in Huili, south-west China.
Earlier this week an Internet user in China visited their county government website and was greeted with a horribly Photoshopped photograph showing three government officials inspecting a road. http://www.petapixel.com/2011/06/29/badly-photoshopped-photo-of-chinese-government-officials-goes-viral/

Badly Photoshopped Photo of Chinese Government Officials Goes Viral

http://jimayson.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/the-great-dpwh-photoshop-meme/ Not only is everything here made in China nowadays, even our public officials are ripping off crackpot ideas from their Chinese counterparts. The DPWH Facebook page recently came under fire with this now historic Photoshopped image of three officials inspecting the post-Pedring carnage along Roxas Boulevard: This was such an obviously Photoshopped image (and a bad Photoshop job at that) that engineer/blogger Pierre Albert San Diego did a quick logical analysis of the image and immediately took them to task for this on his blog.

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