EDHS Contemporary World Affairs

Teddy Bear · Veteran Member

Watch CNN blunder as news network map shows Hong Kong in South America

Zoe Kline-Koenig · Senior Member

This is another example of news sources trying to out do each other! Every news source tries to be the first one with the information, even sacrifycing accuracy. While things like this can be entertaining, they are also kind of troubling.

Dane Ransom · Veteran Member

They just tried to get the jump on the story over other networks, they must have went too fast used the wrong graphic, but even then, dont they have teams to edit any major mistakes like this

Kristen Lindner · Veteran Member

As someone who sees how they edit news cast, mistakes are easy to make in any broadcast. But thats why their are directors and producers who are suppost to approve of anything before airing it. They wanna be the first to report the news to get the viewers, but sometimes they just don't have their facts right.

luigy47 · Veteran Member

well i actually enjoy this. the more they mess up, the more commedy central has on them

Lia_Love522 · Senior Member

It's ridiculous how many times this has happened recently with all theses "reliable" news sources messing up information...I'm guessing it's time to change our current event rubric to say that we must use "semi-reliable, maybe on a good day" sources...come on people GET IT TOGETHER -_-

sheilasey · Senior Member

This is similar to Twitter news posts and news sources constantly trying to be the first one to post news before others to gain more viewership. The media is becoming more flawed with the advances in technology seemingly hindering the accuracy of their reports.

kevinNguyen · Veteran Member

that just shows carelessness on CNN about trying to be the first ones on a news story and not caring to see if everything was right