Wednesday, August 8, 2007

CNN is an idiot too!

Okay, this is upsetting. Does everyone remember when CNN did a geography quiz on the streets? Well, maybe CNN could have used a geography lesson or two today.

This is an article about a cholera outbreak in Comoros. It's sad, and I don't mean to cheapen the deaths of those people, but I need to bring something to your attention. Notice the URL of the story:



See how it says asiapcf, as in "Asia and Pacific Ocean"? Yeah...this story is filed with the Asian/Pacific stories. Really. Oh, here's a map of the southern tip of AFRICA and the INDIAN OCEAN. Comoros is circled in red.



No stretch of the imagination could place Comoros in Asia or the Pacific Ocean. This is a horrible geographic transgression, CNN.com! I am ashamed!