Tuesday, August 12, 2008

What will they think of next?

Olympic Balladeer’s Voice Was Dubbed

By JIM YARDLEY (New York Times)
Published: August 12, 2008

BEIJING — Pigtailed and smiling, Lin Miaoke, age 9, stood in a red dress and white shoes during last Friday’s Olympic opening ceremonies and performed “Ode to the Motherland” in what would become one of the evening’s most indelible images: a lone child, fireworks blazing overhead, singing a patriotic ballad before an estimated one billion viewers.

Except that she was not really singing.

The article goes on to say that the Chinese authorities found a cute girl who could not sing well enough and a good singer who was not cute enough so ...

What will they think of next?

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