MSNBC fails U.S. geography

Plots on a map four cities in New York and Pennsylvania where the president plans to visit next week.....and gets all four wrong.

http://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/08/msnbc_map_fail_syracuse_wrong_place.html

 

Really MSNBC has failed the country

 

Must not be any prisons or pedophiles there. They know where all of those places are.

 

or Liberals

 

No wonder Ryan Fitzpatrick had so many problems throwing through those mountain winds.

 

Mistakes do happen, but why use a map as a graphic if you can't be bothered to ensure it's correct? And then to miss on all four cities? Sloppy and stupid.

 

Yeah. I am amazed at some of the stuff that gets on air at networks and major market stations. This isn't at the level of the San Francisco station with the phony pilots' names last month, but it's still sort of embarrassing.

(Sort of like the Olympic ticket rep who answered a phone call from New Mexico and told the caller he had to purchase tickets through the Mexican Olympic Committee.)

 

I've worked in the TV business for more than 20 years. This is absolutely universal from shop to shop: Graphic artists cannot spell, and they can't place stuff on a map to save their lives.

The MSNBC one is nothing. The states were in the right place. I can't find the screenshot now, but CNN had a map of the lake in Idaho where the kidnapped girl was found... and they put it in Oklahoma. Sorta the same shape as Idaho, but on its side...

The artist that works on my show once made a map with Arizona in the wrong spot. I work in Phoenix.

 

SUM TING WONG STRIKES AGAIN!







HO LEE FUK.

 

I've lost count how many maps have left the Upper Peninsula completely off of Michigan. I believe Outside magazine did that once, and the U.P. is one of the places people go when they want to, oh, go outside.