Rhode Island tourism video looks beautiful because it features Iceland

Poor, poor Rhode Island.

The state — second only to Florida and New Jersey in state-jokes — recently came under fire after posting a new tourism video. Soon after publishing the video, viewers complained that the video included some misplaced stock footage. Parts of the video, they claimed, weren’t Rhode Island but somewhere a little farther — Reykjavik, Iceland.

The state’s economic development agency, the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation, then took down the video and blamed the editing agency they used.  Read more…