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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow does a media company like CNN make this kind of mistake?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/politics/trump-buy-greenland-wall-street-journal/index.htmlThey are citing the Wall Street Journal. But still to not fact check the statement that Eisenhower purchased Alaska.
Aides expressed both expectation and reservation at the President's still-unclear interest in the idea and had questions about the island's military and research potential, the Journal reported. They pointed to those outside the administration floating a Greenland purchase as a potential legacy-builder for Trump, similar to President Dwight Eisenhower's purchase of Alaska, the paper added.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)fill airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed. They brush up against journalism on occasion, but it is not something planned on their part.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,106 posts)madaboutharry
(40,250 posts)Alaska became a state in 1959 when Eisenhower was president.
There is no excuse for that kind of mistake.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...and it became the 49th State on Jan 1, 1959, during Ike's second term.
Did she write the article?
Atticus
(15,124 posts)purchased Alaska.
TwilightZone
(25,550 posts)As noted at the bottom of the article.
yardwork
(61,849 posts)This was a pathetic mistake.
appalachiablue
(41,258 posts)fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)They might be smart or might be stupid. But size has never made one smarter.
They don't get smarter. They just get bigger.
TwilightZone
(25,550 posts)Response to tnlurker (Original post)
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