Fox News graphics department has shaky grasp of Mideast geography
July 27, 2009 5:28 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From the July 27 edition of Fox News' The Live Desk (hat tip to Twitter user StefanoScalia):
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i see that no child left behind is working for the foxnews history fools.
shaking head
Is this some kind of new birfers geografy?
Rupert Murdoch: "Make it so, Number Two."
FOX Broadcasting: The 'number two' of network news. I better trademark it!
Teacher: "OK, Johnny. Can you show the America on the map?"
Johnny: "uh, whuts a map?"
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our [children].
(Oh, and FOX's track record with graphics is decidedly worse, given how many (D)s they've added to scandal-ridden goopers.)
"Of course we did."
"What day was that?"
"On Shadowday! Hey, that's a pretty good joke, eh, boss?"
Perhaps they need to rethink their "Margarita Monday" policy.
Sarah Palin is now working for FOX!
Win.
Your posts just made my day.
But I agree that most would not notice this.
From the 2006 National Geographic survey of geographic knowledge.
"Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map—though U.S. troops have been there since 2003."
Not that American isolationism means we know where things are here:
"Half of young Americans can't find New York on a map."
But every Foxist knows that New York--wherever it is--is not part of the real USA.
(h/t Woody Allen)
But this is just wrong. {shock, horror}
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
Fox News. Dumbing down the American public since 1996.™
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the US should help the US, uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us."
Enough said.
Might be time for some additional education reform?