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What's Wrong With This Picture?

By Vaughn Ververs

June 21, 2006 / 10:30 AM EDT / CBS News

(AP / CBS)

Actually, there is nothing wrong with this graphic now – thanks to the ever-watchful eyes of the blogosphere. As Little Green Footballs points out however, the image which originally ran with this story, about China's plans for a trip to the moon, featured the flag of Japan, not China. Oops.

According to Michael Sims, director of news and operations for CBSNews.com, the error was an "honest mistake" by both the producer of the story who pulled the incorrect graphic and the copy editor who reviewed the story. As Sims notes, the image has been corrected and the story includes an editor's note which reads: "A previous version of this story included a graphic of the Japanese flag instead of the Chinese flag. We regret the error."