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Chinese Journalist Breaks Internet And That Too With an Eye-roll

When in China, even your eye-roll can get you censored. So the question – is freedom of press, where are thou?

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Want to become an overnight sensation and break the internet?

That’s so simple! All you have to do is land in a controversial kiss, raise your eyebrows and wink at a guy, or, this just in, roll your eyes at your fellow journalist at a press conference, right after the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress. But what’s so special about an eye-roll, you wonder?

Well, Liang Xiangyi, a journalist did a very obvious, and very dramatic, eye-roll filled with disgust, and turned her head away when her colleague Zhang Huijun of the American Multimedia Television (AMT) asked an incredibly long question, marked with praises for the government’s initiatives.

Wait! She did WHAAAAT?

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