11 times TV news channels got maps very, very wrong
Fortunately for us a chap called Max Fisher is a ‘connoisseur of hilariously wrong TV news maps’ and here are 11 of the best. Or the worst, if you see what we mean.
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https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/984171745732161536
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CNN visits Hong Kong (a personal favorite) pic.twitter.com/D3kEH9i0Xd
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
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Eastern Europe is confusing! All those countries, almost none of which are Canada. CNN declutters a bit by relocating Ukraine to Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/zJ0ASLyEKl
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
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CBS was worried Cool Pope might miss his home country of Argentina so helpfully compressed and relocated it into a single town somewhere in Colombia pic.twitter.com/9jgD8Srfqc
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
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Those libs at MSNBC are so eager to appease the commies that they went ahead and reunified Czechoslovakia pic.twitter.com/7NE3MGr4lt
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
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But Western Europe isn’t much easier! Is France in France, or is it in Spain? Hard to say for sure, CNN is looking into it pic.twitter.com/8ipzXgebe2
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
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If CNN was unable to find Gaddafi it may be, and I’m just spitballing here, because they were looking in the wrong Tripoli pic.twitter.com/82S1zFwt63
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
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Our first stop is the Middle East according to Fox News. A classic of the genre, broadcast at a moment when perma-invading Iraq, sorry I mean “Egypt," was of the utmost. pic.twitter.com/1GCDob22gy
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
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It might seem nitpicky to hit CNN for misplacing Kuala Lumpur from Malaysia to Indonesia, but recall this was from their wall-to-wall search for MH370. I think I know why they didn’t find it. pic.twitter.com/zHV0rt2b7K
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
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Who could forget CNN confusing Niger and Nigeria
I’ll be honest folks it’s mostly CNN from here out pic.twitter.com/aDt1lZnvx0
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
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Finally, please put on your felt gloves and breathing mask while handling the JEWEL OF THE COLLECTION, Fox News’ *exquisite* Eastern Europe. Yugoslavia has reunified, except for Serbia, which is now Hungary, and also Yugoslavia is now Bulgaria, which is nameless. It’s beautiful. pic.twitter.com/58mT8VWpzy
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) April 11, 2018
Unfortunately, not surprising. Try asking folks to identify all 50 U.S. states on a map…
— Steve Wiesner (@spwiesner1) April 11, 2018
If you do infographics for a major news network you damned well better be able to.
— Bennett Murray (@BDMurray) April 11, 2018
Thing is, I may not know where most countries are on a map, but if that was my job on a major news network, I'd learn how to use Google Maps.
— International Assassin (@ricleal) April 11, 2018