CNN can't read a simple map (riots in France)

[sociotard]

I thought my fellow freepers would like this. I was just on another forum where a guy in france posted some screengrabs from CNN. I'll attach his comments.

Originally posted by altamaros:
Apparently, alarmed by the riots, we have decided to move our towns.
Apparently Paris moved 150 km east.
Lyon moves form its previous situation aside the alps to south of Massif Central
Toulouse decided that being on the Altantic shore was no good (too close to the USA, i guess) and move east to become a italian alpine city.
The mayor of Stasbourg was more careful. he chose his town to stop being in France and moved it in southern Germany.

the guy at CNN must have spent some time in Rennes since apparently it's the only town roughly at the good place.

Granted, if you slapped down an outline of france and asked me to pin the tail on the city, I couldn't do any better, but then I'm not a proffesional newscaster.

Originally posted by Solomon
Dude, that's CNN after all! Actually, merely displacing towns is an improvement for them... they've been known to displace whole countries on occasions! Look what they did to the Czech Republic...
Poor old Prague used to be a nice city, before CNN dropped Bern on it.

[F14 Pilot]

LMAO!

I hate CNN!

[sociotard]

oops, formating error. The Comment about Rennes was the other guy talking, not me.

[Army Air Corps]

Now, this is funny...

[nuconvert]

LOL!

[Lancer_N3502A]

Boy, they got the first round picks of the high IQ tryouts didn't they?

[flashbunny]

[sociotard]

18 X Lightspeed? What're they doing in low orbit all the time? :P

[F14 Pilot]

LOL

[elli1]

they've been known to displace whole countries on occasions...

Looks like they're still at it. France is occupying Germany, according to the cnn map.

[okie01]

Not to mention they labelled Poland as France...

Just remind yourself, they're journalism majors...

[etradervic]

Maybe they can read this map:

[C210N]

Its just an innocent slight of the pen when marking up the map with city names. Probably happens at CNN all the time. Just like when a slight on Google's hand innocently forgets to put the lines in for Israeli borders, and calls the entire area Palestine. I can't say I know their motive for putzing around with French city locations, but I'm sure they have one...

[goarmy]

France-and-CNN-sucks PING!!!

[South40]

[Zechariah11]

ROFL!!!! Great capture!

[A message]

LOL, oh my they didn't even get close with those cities on that map. Lille on the coast, Strasbourg pretty much in Austria or Southern Germany.

Wow

[Clay Moore]

Wow, no wonder it broke up! Doesn't mass go to infinite as you approach light speed?

[nuconvert]

Actually, I think it's a problem using overlays.
But the guy on the forum made very funny remarks.

[sociotard]

I thought that, but then wouldn't the cities at least be in the right locations in relation to each other, even if they didn't correspond to the rest of the map?

[Zechariah11]

Toulouse decided that being on the Altantic shore was no good (too close to the USA, i guess) and move east to become a italian alpine city.

Hilarious.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Hmm. I took a course in cartography.

I even got a B.S. in Geography.

Maybe I ought to pursue a career change..

I suspect CNN might be hiring.

[nuconvert]

hmm....you got a point there. lol. I give up.

[Reactionary]

Another sterling example of ultra-brainy, ultra-sophisticated liberal genius.

Next they'll have Berlin in Saudi Arabia.

[hole_n_one]

Remember that time when CNN broke into their programming with Breaking News about a pair of giants having surrounded Iraq?..........

[Tribune7]

CNN: Muslim rioters are African American

[nopardons]

ROTFLOL

[maggief]

[Petronski]

Cheese-nibbling whine-swilling monkeys throwing darts at a map.



And why is the word France vaguely located in Prussia?

[Petronski]

I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there...

[freedumb2003]

ROTFLMAO

This is one of the funniest threads I have seen in a long time!

18x the speed of light. So they reversed time, a'la Star Trek?

[freedumb2003]

LOL -- I am keeping that one!

[ken in texas]

I suspect CNN might be hiring.

Perhaps... but if you have any expertise your odds of being hired are probably diminished.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Well, I hear it's so bad in France that they're asking the Germans to come back.

[Sender]

...shuttle only travelling blink 18? Hardly even escape velocity. Something must be wrong with the flux capacitor.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Well, what can we expect? We're lucky it wasn't Peter Arnette -Baghdaddy- reading the map... Or maybe he would have done a better job.

[F14 Pilot]

CNN doesnt hire smart people! ;-)

[Felicity Fahrquar]

Hey! This could be your chance to finally be one of those "embedded" dudes! Job requirements include hanging around second-rate third-world hotel bars and wearing a lot of khaki.

[Army Air Corps]

I can train a chimp to be a CNN reporter.

[timestax]

[Victoria Delsoul]

I believe you.

[george76]

[george76]

[Army Air Corps]

Good ol' panty-waisted Carter. He was a close to a French Socialist as we have ever had in government.

[george76]

 

 

[Excuse_Me]

Toulouse is not on the Atlantic, it is in central southern France, directly north of Andorra.

[george76]

 

And the good news,

The Gallup organization noted that public trust in television news and newspapers reached an all-time low this year . . .

 

 U.S. newspaper circulation fell  ...  extending a trend that has seen the industry struggle to keep subscriptions in the face of competition from ... the Internet.        http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051107/bs_nm/media_newspaper_dc   

 

 San Francisco Chronicle, 391,681, down 16.4 percent

Nice work, jackass.

 

1. USA Today, 2,296,335, down 0.59 percent

4. Los Angeles Times, 843,432, down 3.79 percent

9. Houston Chronicle, 521,419, down 6.01 percent

10. The Boston Globe, 414,225, down 8.25 percent

13. San Francisco Chronicle, 391,681, down 16.4 percent

15. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 362,426, down 8.73 percent

20. The San Diego Union-Tribune, 314,279, down 6.24 percent. 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517587/posts

these are circulation figures which include FREE     newspapers .  

 

 free copies to hotels and airport frequent flier lounges.

 

The Gallup organization noted that public trust in television news and newspapers reached an all-time low this year . . .

 

 U.S. newspaper circulation fell  ...  extending a trend that has seen the industry struggle to keep subscriptions in the face of competition from ... the Internet.        http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051107/bs_nm/media_newspaper_dc   

 

 San Francisco Chronicle, 391,681, down 16.4 percent

Nice work, jackass.

 

1. USA Today, 2,296,335, down 0.59 percent

4. Los Angeles Times, 843,432, down 3.79 percent

9. Houston Chronicle, 521,419, down 6.01 percent

10. The Boston Globe, 414,225, down 8.25 percent

13. San Francisco Chronicle, 391,681, down 16.4 percent

15. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 362,426, down 8.73 percent

20. The San Diego Union-Tribune, 314,279, down 6.24 percent. 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517587/posts

these are circulation figures which include FREE     newspapers .  

 

 free copies to hotels and airport frequent flier lounges.

 

these are circulation figures which include FREE     newspapers .  

 free copies to hotels and airport frequent flier lounges.

[Verginius Rufus]

They also got Lille more or less in the right place.

The mixup between the Czech Republic and Switzerland is understandable. There's a Brno in the Czech Republic and a Bern in Switzerland.

[Pajamajan]

ROFL!

[alligator]

BTTT

That is just too funny to let it not be repeated!!! Cheers...