A grand day at the park, enhanced by the People’s Daily

In the following image of a park in Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, that ran in the People’s Daily on June 26, how many pairs of identical birds can you identify?

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A park full of clones

Click on the image for an enlarged version of “people and nature coexisting in harmony,” as the photo is captioned.

Zhang Bin, a photojournalist, found six cloned areas, which she pointed out in a blog post:

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Zhang writes:

A photographer friend pointed me to the June 26, 2009 (Friday) edition of the People’s Daily, page 14, which had a photo that turned out to have been seriously PS’d. Inspecting it, I noticed six places that had been copied and pasted. I don’t know how the editor cleared it — if it was a momentary lapsed, or…

We’ve spoken I don’t know how many times about truth in news photos, and we’ve emphasized it repeatedly, but there are still photographers who make these mistakes over and over. It’s really disappointing.

For the People’s Daily, the organ of the Party Central Committee, to commit such a basic error really harms the glorious image of party newspapers.

I hope to see fewer and fewer of these kinds of errors!

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