CNN and geography

[Ser Clegane]

If this is not a fake (and it does not look like one) it is quite embarrassing...

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,389655,00.jpg

[Somebody Else]

I thought Switzerland was in Scandinavia..?

[Magraev]

nope - it's the 51. state...

[Hetman_Koronny]

LOL ~:joker:

[ICantSpellDawg]

wow

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

And people wonder why I like Fox news...









~D

[Kaiser of Arabia]

lo ****ING l

[Fragony]

LOL! That is pretty damn stupid!

[Fragony]

I thought Switzerland was in Scandinavia..?

And there we have the target audience ~;)

[Sjakihata]

I wonder where the chech rep. is?


:duel:

[Somebody Else]

I wonder where the chech rep. is?


:duel:

The Iberian peninsula, of course...

*edit* By chech, d'you mean Chechnya or Czech?

[Ser Clegane]

I wonder where the chech rep. is?


:duel:

Perhaps it has been annexed by the Swiss (those covert imperialists :knight: )

[Sjakihata]

since chechnya isnt a republic I guess it is obvious what I mean ~;)

and yeah, these swiss pikemen seem still to work

[Gregoshi]

Perhaps it has been annexed by the Swiss (those covert imperialists :knight: )You may be right Ser. Perhaps the Swiss banks got tired of them writing too many bad czechs for their loan repayments. ~:joker:

Hehehe...:stunned: okay, it was a bad joke :tomato: Hey! Stop it! :tomato: I'm outta here... :vanish:

[Vlad The Impaler]

~:eek: ~:rolleyes:
well is nothing new to me.they made the same mistake in 2002 when US attacked Irak.i see that they never corect that map.
also , this mistakes of CNN are not singular.i heard many times telling that Budapest in capital of Romania ~D
but this is common to occidental press , especially from france. :furious3:

[ICantSpellDawg]

that is absurd

how can these people make a professional living from covering international events and not know their asses from their elbows?

freedom of the press to be total imbeciles should have been an extension to the amendment


if someone is unable to tell me the location of each country in europe, its capital and the ethnic/religious makeup, i dont want to hear a word about what they think regarding European occurences.

[Hetman_Koronny]

heard many times telling that Budapest in capital of Romania ~D

Budapest, Bucharest who cares about those Asian cities anyway? ~;)

[Lord Godfrey]

3 out of 4 isn't that bad ~:joker:

[Plantagenet]

I bet the Czechs were surprised to learn they're living in Switzerland...or maybe the Swiss to find out that their native mountain range all along has NOT been the Alps.

If CNN made this mistake, then FOX must think Switzerland is somewhere in Central America... ~D

[KukriKhan]

The Telegraph's pretty funny too:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/30/uiran.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/05/30/ixportaltop.html

"Cleric killed in Iran"

(and Karachi is......where?)

[Fragony]

(and Karachi is......where?)

//raises finger mememe!!!!

oh wait nvrmnd

[Beirut]

Oh for goodness sake! Everyone knows Switzerland is in Asia. :bow:

[Quid]

Perhaps it has been annexed by the Swiss (those covert imperialists :knight: )

...and you're next, my friend ! ~;)

Quid

[Skomatth]

I'm sure this can be explained by the curvature of the earth ~D

[Accounting Troll]

I find it more significant that CNN apparently think that their audience needs help in locating Germany.

[Papewaio]

See the world is run by banks... just not Jewish ones... Swiss, with their clocks, multifunctional pocket knives, swatches and banks are now incorporating other cultures.