Ukraine located in Pakistan, according to CNN

[Pakistani-nationalist]

Ukraine located in Pakistan, according to CNN
The American news giant, CNN, has reshaped the world a bit in their live coverage of events in Ukraine. The eastern part of the European country got pinned miles and miles away from where it actually is – in Pakistan.

CNN was reporting Sunday about independence referendums in Ukraine’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk while also using a map to indicate the country’s geographical location. Apparently by mistake, the arrow with Ukrainian flag on top was pointing to Pakistan, South Asia.
The error was quickly spotted by sharp-eyed viewers, one of whom snapped the TV screen and published the image on Twitter. Quite predictably, the post has gone viral with hundreds of users retweeting the picture and marking it as “favorite”.
Even the fact that instantly after that the channel correctly marked Slavyansk and Donetsk – where CNN journalists are located for coverage – did not save the situation.

This is not the first time CNN has bombed on Twitter with revised maps. Last year, the top US news channel placed Hong-Kong wrong in South America.




The Ukraine mistake, however, fits into a pattern. A recent poll revealed that only 16 percent of Americans could correctly identify Ukraine on a map, with the median respondent being about 1,800 miles off. Some people thought Ukraine could be located as far south as Argentina or Australia, or as far north as Finland.

Interestingly enough, those who could not correctly spot the continent where Ukraine is located, were more likely to support American military intervention to resolve the ongoing political crisis in the former Soviet republic.

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Someone said it right "God created wars so the Americans can learn some geography"
Source:
Whither Ukraine? CNN map says in… Pakistan — RT News

 

[Thorough Pro]

CNN are a bunch of idiots

 

[BDforever]

Ukraine located in Pakistan, according to CNN
The American news giant, CNN, has reshaped the world a bit in their live coverage of events in Ukraine. The eastern part of the European country got pinned miles and miles away from where it actually is – in Pakistan.

CNN was reporting Sunday about independence referendums in Ukraine’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk while also using a map to indicate the country’s geographical location. Apparently by mistake, the arrow with Ukrainian flag on top was pointing to Pakistan, South Asia.
The error was quickly spotted by sharp-eyed viewers, one of whom snapped the TV screen and published the image on Twitter. Quite predictably, the post has gone viral with hundreds of users retweeting the picture and marking it as “favorite”.
Even the fact that instantly after that the channel correctly marked Slavyansk and Donetsk – where CNN journalists are located for coverage – did not save the situation.

This is not the first time CNN has bombed on Twitter with revised maps. Last year, the top US news channel placed Hong-Kong wrong in South America.




The Ukraine mistake, however, fits into a pattern. A recent poll revealed that only 16 percent of Americans could correctly identify Ukraine on a map, with the median respondent being about 1,800 miles off. Some people thought Ukraine could be located as far south as Argentina or Australia, or as far north as Finland.

Interestingly enough, those who could not correctly spot the continent where Ukraine is located, were more likely to support American military intervention to resolve the ongoing political crisis in the former Soviet republic.

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Source:
Whither Ukraine? CNN map says in… Pakistan — RT News

Ukraine located in Pakistan, according to CNN
The American news giant, CNN, has reshaped the world a bit in their live coverage of events in Ukraine. The eastern part of the European country got pinned miles and miles away from where it actually is – in Pakistan.

CNN was reporting Sunday about independence referendums in Ukraine’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk while also using a map to indicate the country’s geographical location. Apparently by mistake, the arrow with Ukrainian flag on top was pointing to Pakistan, South Asia.
The error was quickly spotted by sharp-eyed viewers, one of whom snapped the TV screen and published the image on Twitter. Quite predictably, the post has gone viral with hundreds of users retweeting the picture and marking it as “favorite”.
Even the fact that instantly after that the channel correctly marked Slavyansk and Donetsk – where CNN journalists are located for coverage – did not save the situation.

This is not the first time CNN has bombed on Twitter with revised maps. Last year, the top US news channel placed Hong-Kong wrong in South America.




The Ukraine mistake, however, fits into a pattern. A recent poll revealed that only 16 percent of Americans could correctly identify Ukraine on a map, with the median respondent being about 1,800 miles off. Some people thought Ukraine could be located as far south as Argentina or Australia, or as far north as Finland.

Interestingly enough, those who could not correctly spot the continent where Ukraine is located, were more likely to support American military intervention to resolve the ongoing political crisis in the former Soviet republic.

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Source:
Whither Ukraine? CNN map says in… Pakistan — RT News

 

[Solomon2]

"There's one good thing about war; it teaches people geography." - It appears CNN is an exception to the rule.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

they were spotted showing images of Greek unrest in their report abt anti Putin riots in Moscow some years back. RT had also busted that bubble too. It seems that in all their propaganda complains now they have gone total nuts.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

interesting last two paragraphs........

''The Ukraine mistake, however, fits into a pattern. A recent poll revealed that only 16 percent of Americans could correctly identify Ukraine on a map, with the median respondent being about 1,800 miles off. Some people thought Ukraine could be located as far south as Argentina or Australia, or as far north as Finland.

Interestingly enough, those who could not correctly spot the continent where Ukraine is located, were more likely to support American military intervention to resolve the ongoing political crisis in the former Soviet republic.''

 

[halupridol]

 

[Pakistani-nationalist]

LOL hongkong in south america

 

[Al Bhatti]

Pakistan does not need to spend millions on publicity.

 

[Pakistani-nationalist]

CNN(comedy news network)

 

[IND151]

 

[Beidou2020]

Yankee propaganda mouthpiece is a fail

 

[Dubious]

CNN seems to think Eastern Ukraine is located somewhere in Pakista

• BY TERRENCE MCCOY
  
  • May 12 at 11:28 pm
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/terrence-mccoy

There’s no question what’s happening in Eastern Ukraine is confusing. The country appears to be spiraling into civil war, something called the “Donetsk People’s Republic” is involved and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s positions on the matter appear to change by the day.

One of the few agreed upon matters, however, should be where Eastern Ukraine actually is: between Western Ukraine and Russia, adrift in very uncertain waters.

But CNN is still a bit confused. On Sunday, as thousands of Eastern Ukrainians participated in a referendum to ostensibly determine self-rule, CNN took us into the action. Yep, right into … Pakistan.

“The CNN International map was a human error,” spokesman Bridget Leininger told The Washington Post. “A producer did not completely fulfill the map program, therefore the program went to a default map.”

The mistake, which was first exposed by the Twitter handle Russian Market, follows a similar situation last week when Fox News admitted it had accidentally used images of grieved Tibetan sherpas in a story about South Koreans mourning the sunken ferry. And as Russia Today points out, CNN has committed cartographic crimes before.

Most Americans, according to this Washington Post Monkey Cage study, have little right to criticize the network. Only 16 percent of respondents correctly located Ukraine, and the median response was actually 1,800 miles off-target. A number of them even placed it near or within — yes — Pakistan.

“If I could ask this, please be gentle with our producer as it was a human error,” CNN’s Leininger said in an e-mail. “It was not an intentional, nor an editorial decision.”

Terrence McCoy is a foreign affairs writer at the Washington Post. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Cambodia and studied international politics at Columbia University.

CNN seems to think Eastern Ukraine is located somewhere in Pakistan

 

[vostok]

It's journalists, people with higher education... How can they be so stupid? Even our children have a better understanding about the planet on which they live.

 

[Jungibaaz]

Oh man CNN, Pakistan, Ukraine, Hong Kong and London?? Why not just get a map, how hard is it?

It probably takes more effort to point the place out wrong then it does to get it right.