I can't believe anyone can take any M$M news seriously anymore...

[tk2kewl]

Are CNNs cartographers smarter than a 5th grader? :wtf:

[valerief]

1. Some Cannes and some Cannot. nt

[FSogol]

2. The Cannes in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plains.

:shrug:

[brooklynite]

3. Can you explain what we're looking at?

[tk2kewl]

4. a map of spain that includes a city in france

[PoliticAverse]

6. I Cannes not. n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. All in the MSM should be "Cannes-d" n/t

I've not taken them seriously since....2000 or so (just after THE election).

[Ship of Fools]

7. egads. glad i got my general education in the 60s.

[tk2kewl]

8. I am surprised they were able to spell G20

x(

[HughBeaumont]

9. CNBC's ticker editors frequently screw up simple spelling and punctuation.

You know, aside from all the failed Reaganomics the anchors praise lovingly.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Hey, give em a break -

they're in competition for ratings with Faux, so they probably just decided to hire away some of Faux's talent. That's the way it works in that industry.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Wrong country, wrong body of water

It would be like a foreign newscast placing New York where Vancouver or Tijuana are located.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. That's the reason?

While humorous, there are way more reasons not to take them seriously.

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. ...

About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1120_021120_GeoRoperSurvey.html

[jakeXT]

14. ouch

Particularly humiliating was that all countries were better able to identify the U.S. population than many young U.S. citizens. Within the U.S., almost one-third said that population was between one billion and two billion; the answer is 289 million.

"It gives the sense that there is this Americentric thing going on—that we are big and powerful and have all these people in our country," said John Fahey, President and CEO of the National Geographic Society.

[City Lights]

15. This thread gave me a much-needed laugh today!

Thanks everyone!

:rofl:

[Blue Owl]

16. I know me neither. It's utterly fucking ridiculous.

:eyes:

[AlinPA]

17. Ignorant, stupid media. CNN = Fox.

[dtexdem]

18. Is there still someone?

Who knew? ;-)