China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo of Rare Antelope
By Ryan • Feb 27th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Jane Spencer and Juliet Ye for the Wall Street Journal:
“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.
The deception — uncovered by Chinese Internet users who sniffed out a Photoshop scam in the award-winning picture — has brought on a big debate about media ethics, China’s troubled relationship with Tibet, and how pregnant antelope react to noise.
The antelope imbroglio began in the summer of 2006. The Chinese government was celebrating its latest engineering feat, and an enthusiastic wildlife photographer from the Daqing Evening News was camped out on the Tibetan plateau eating energy bars and waiting for antelope to pass.“
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