No not the one in Minnesota. The one in England. Well CNN doesn’t.
While we were snowed in at the weekend I happened across Jonathon Ross doing his chat show thing and he showed us this. London is, according to CNN (it might have been CBS or ABC or something) in Norfolk! And I started getting all ‘What, they don’t even know where the ‘Greatest City in the World Is!?!?’. Then I stopped (after several glasses of wine) and thought ‘Do I know where New York is?’. On a map? Pinpoint? So I thought I’d give it a go.
What do you think?
How did I do? I confess – my Degree is in Geography and still I only have a rough idea where these places are. In school we had to learn all the States of the USA. By heart. (It’s 50, right?) I’ve travelled quite a bit round the land of the free but I’m not sure I know on a map where Fargo is anymore than a citizen of the States knows where Birmingham is (it’s Alabama, no?)
Anyway I love the look on Matthew Chance’s face – I think he knows London isn’t in the wetlands of Eastern England!
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This cracked me up. One time I was ordering on-line from a young lady at a company in Chicago(a real person in the U.S.!). This was obviously a while ago when you had to dial up an internet connection w/a modem so telephone ordering was much easier.
I live in a tiny town in Massachusetts called Berlin. When we got to the part about where to ship the order I gave her the address in Berlin, Mass.. She replied “Oh? Would that be East or West?” Shaking my head I just said, it really doesn’t matter and she said “Oh, that’s right I did hear about the wall coming down”. OMG, forget geography.
Loved your post! Ah, yes, the geography thing, mostly I get is Australia in Europe (no not Austria) is it in New Zealand?
Maybe we will see another post about Australia being in Europe soon? It would have to be true because it is CNN? Right : )
Its a funny thing but a lot of people who aren’t (British of Australian) get those accents mixed up
Really? I guess it’s similar to getting the Canadian and US accents mixed up – how ab-out that?
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That’s CNN for you!
I think most peole anywhere would fail a geography test. I spent two months in UAB Hospital in Birmingham. I don’t remember most of it.
You did rather well !!
You missed Wichita by several states, but I don’t think that the people in Kansas would mind living where you placed them !!
When I was in school in Nebraska, (find that one ) there were several girls that really thought that Chicago was a STATE !!!
Ha, I didn’t know there was a London in Minnesota!
It’s actually New London/Spicer
Found it!
my family is acutally from that area. So that’s how I know it!
I worked with a girl who asked me what the PA behind Pittsburg meant. When I told her she replied “oh, that’s in Europe somewhere isn’t it?” And we pay to send them to school. Ach.
I’m guessing that fact checker is fired.
I just stopped by to say thanks for checking out my blog today.
I’m just going to exit quietly before you all discover I’m an American spy……wait what? I didn’t say anything..who’re we talking about?
Hysterical and sad at the same time. It’s just so embarrassing. I can’t believe no one at the network caught it before it aired!
Or maybe they did and were too lazy to fix the graphic? Or maybe someone is just trying to be funny?
Or maybe I am just looking for something else to blame instead of sheer stupidity!
Can’t blame ‘em! I have no idea where london is either!
Ha! I saw this, too. Even though I live in the States now, I used to live in Loughton, and when I saw this, I didn’t know whether to laugh or weep openly at the sorriness of the country I’d moved to.
Incidentally, National Geographic conducted a literacy survey amongst Americans aged 18 to 24. Here’s some of what they found (although you can find other bits of similar information floating round the Internet):
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/findings.html
Norwich is the new London
London is in Norfolk. Of course!
There is much CNN likely does not know
Hilarious and depressing at the same time.
Are you sure it wasn’t FOX news?
Now I think Fox News offers an excellent balanced view of world affairs. But then I also think Rupert Murdoch would be the perfect choice for Major of London.
shocking! I thought it was only us Belgians who live in obscurity
The whole of Northern Europe shares your pain
Point well taken. Everybody knows Bruxelles. But ask someone about Genval? Nope.
Really interesting post! You did OK, especially without the state lines shown on the map. But geography shouldn’t be that hard for a news station (sorry, CNN).
Oh, and funny they felt the need to highlight ‘Cornwall’, where I’m from. I can tell you are intimately familiar with Cornwall (not), which you’d think from the map was a city, not a County which extends a fair way up the map. In fact I they’ve highlighted Penzance, where I spent part of my growing up time.
I know, Cornwall is a nice place (Grandfather country) but not sure what the significance is (I mean why not mention Bognor Regis too)
Lets not mention Bognor Regis. It’s enough that I’ve been there.
Hey I live near Croydon. We all have our crosses to bear, so to speak.
Close enough for government work. My pet peeve is when an American finds out I’m from ‘England’ (and England to Americans means Great Britain), they assume I must also be from London, which I’ve visited about 4 times, other than to fly out of. I think I’ve been to New York now more than London.
The only thing in CNN’s favour is that it’s in the right country!
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