AsiaPundit loves the art of Stalinist photoshopping. This originated with ESWN, but AsiaPundit links to Roland almost every second day, so instead a link to Diacritic, who expands marvelously on the original post, in which Chinese media indicate a photo from a Caracas riot is from the recent WTO protests in Hong Kong.:
That we cannot fully trust the photograph is not suprising. The visual manipulation of history and current events continues.
ESWN, who apparently posseses a picture perfect memory, shares a recent photographic trespass by Chinese media. The event: The WTO protests in Hong Kong. No need to explain here, the two pictures speak for themselves.
Yet somewhere deep inside, we cannot resist the temptation to trust the image. Seeing is believing.
As a blast from the past, more Chinese photoshopping in the Stalinist tradition. This work of art took place in state media ahead of Hu Jintao’s takeover from Jiang Zemin:
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