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The Envoy - 4 hrs ago Huili officials hover over a a highway project in China's Sichuan province they are supposed ... 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.
Calls soon began flooding the county's offices, which quickly issued an apology and removed the image. And like government bureaucrats the world over, Huili county officials were quick to blame the mix-up on journalists--or in this case, a photographer.
Huili county explanation posted to China's Weibo social networking site. Still, other China watchers noted the Chinese officials were quick to apologize for the incident and embrace social media as they sought to undo the damage and explain what had happened.
writes, referring to a popular Chinese Facebook-type social networking site. So for all the furor surrounding the clumsy PR overture, it does at least appear that the Chinese government has mastered the first lesson in PR crisis management: Get out ahead of the problem, 'fess up and move on.
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A report who's main topic is about the photos, and you can't even enlarge the photos to see what the hell you are writing about.
but they were actually stills taken from the movie "Top Gun". the Chinese are truly the world masters at cheap knock-offs and fakes.
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