News channels & Geography

[Freighter]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...land-should-be

“Our American early morning news team suffered a little geography mishap,” a spokesperson said. “We ... have corrected ours as soon as it was spotted, and have given our team a new map of the southern hemisphere to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”




How is it even possible? If they don't know where countries are located, is it not... Uh, normal to check where they are located before you do anything? This is like those people on here who insisted that South Korea was in Southeast Asia.

[Empte]

Americans and geography. /facepalm

[Afrospinach]

Why have they mislabeled Iran?(ok, if you have not seen that video this will make no sense)

[Thekri]

Americans and geography. /facepalm

Well, it is RT, so it isn't just American's responsible for this. People are pretty shit at geography in general, because it isn't something that effects most peoples daily lives (Same reason most people are shit at astronomy, geology, higher maths, etc). It is always fun to point and laugh though, and this one is no exception. I mean at least they figured out japan was an island and South Korea was... half of a land mass? I really don't get the logic behind the South Korea one.