CNN: The news channel for people who have never looked at a map

[Joe Republic]

Does anybody remember when I had these two screencaps from CNN in my signature?:








Well now it seems they've done it again.  Just to illustrate how much the war in Afghanistan has been forgotten, CNN has now shown that they can't even remember where the damn place is any more:





This should be news for the people of Syria.

So between FOX's convenient attributions of corruption and sex scandals to Democrats instead of the Republicans who actually committed them, and CNN's almost total ineptitude with basic geography, it looks like the American media is still going from strength to strength.

[Joe Republic]

Some more examples:



That's one huge France!

Holy crap, that wasn't just a careless mistake.  It really took some effort to get it that wrong.

[Joe Republic]

CNN uses google earth for their maps.

I doubt the legitimacy of that photo, as I watch CNN, they use google earth, and don't overlay their fonts or text on a map anymore. If that was supposed to be recent, I'd say its fake.

Sorry Conan, you lose.  Watch for yourself.

For the France one, that too would be google earth to blame, probably because of poor loading. As for the others, those can be real.

Even if we went with your bizarre assumption about Google Earth being to blame, you don't think it's important that anybody at CNN's graphics department or editorial staff wouldn't take one look at that map and think, "uh, that just looks plain wrong"?

[Joe Republic]

Epic bump in honor of the Arab Spring:

[Joe Republic]

Hey, Tripoli, Lebanon is one of the auto complete suggestions on Wikipedia. CNN's crack addicted team of researchers and graphics department is all over that.

FTFY.

[Joe Republic]

I forgot this classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYXR0Pb_EjU&feature=related

And only just saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2OKNVa5hkI&NR=1

[Joe Republic]

How dare you remind me of the forum member Conan.

Quite the acerbic moron, wasn't he?  He gave the D-NJ avatar an even worse reputation, just when you thought MAS117 couldn't sink it any lower.

[Joe Republic]

The correct answer is Verily, of course.  Fezzy's good too though, even if he was kind of a hack back in the old days.

[Joe Republic]

He managed to get himself pseudo-famous for 5 minutes by helping to get a fake Tea Party candidate onto the ballot in NJ-03 last year.

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Ridiculous and dishonest are certainly two descriptions for MAS117.

[Joe Republic]

Bump.

[Joe Republic]

Yeah, J. J. is talking nonsense once again:

[Joe Republic]

Let's switch over to FOX News for a minute:

[Joe Republic]

Classic J. J. in this thread.

[Joe Republic]

It's a shame so many of the image links in this thread have since died.

[Joe Republic]

On a somewhat related topic, Joe Biden just made the same mistake millions of Americans do all the time:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U7S3Aq51II

[Joe Republic]

Huh. People edited those to make it look life FOX did them. Then again should I be surprised?

What are you talking about?  Who edited what?

[Joe Republic]

That's just... I don't even know what that is.

[Joe Republic]

Let's switch over to FOX News for a minute:

These aren't as bad, though. They Utah does border Nevada, and Vermont does border New Hampshire. They probably just colored in the wrong state by mistake.

As opposed to all these other examples of coloring in the wrong states deliberately, you mean?