How is this News?

So the Guinness Book of World Records is releasing their 2009 edition in the next day or two. They get they world's shortest man, He Pingping, and the woman with the longest legs in the world, Svetlana Pankratova to stand on some steps at Trafalgar Square in London. This becomes front-page news on every website in the world and the top story on every television news network.

How? Why? Are we that desperate for a break from wars and politics? Maybe so.

I love how Craig Glenday, and editor with Guinness, says they don't want to turn the promotion for the new edition into a freak show. So in their honorable effort to avoid this, what do they do? Get a couple of freaks to pose with the book so everyone in the world can gawk at them. I especially love the shot of Pingping standing between Pankratova's legs as he does his best to keep eyes forward!

Nice.