Confusing! Hungary mixed up with Serbia by American CNN – PHOTO
The American CNN was reporting on the Russian-Ukrainian war, when the news-based channel published a map showing Hungary as Serbia.
It is internationally known that Hungary plays an important role as a neighbour of Ukraine in providing humanitarian assistance to refugees. Despite all this, it seems that the positioning of Hungary causes some difficulties overseas. And this is not the first time.
As the Hungarian news portal Origo reports, the world-renowned pro-democracy
CNN has published a “map” on which Hungary is presented as Serbia.
In addition, it does not show “Serbia” near the Serbian-Hungarian border, but in the north-eastern part of the country, near the Slovakian and Ukrainian borders.
The latest CNN blunder was spotted by Peter Murphy, a correspondent for the French news agency AFP in Budapest who also shared a photo on his Twitter page.
Hungary’s turn to get mangled in atrocious Ukraine coverage maps pic.twitter.com/XaDml6o1un
— Peter Murphy (@MurphyPeterN) March 15, 2022
As reported by Origo, last month an American Democratic House Speaker spoke about Russia’s encirclement of Hungary. Presumably by mistake, the veteran politician gave the false impression that Russia was attacking Hungary, instead of Ukraine.
Sadly, this is not the first time that Hungary is mixed up with a neighbouring country. As we previously reported, last September, almost the whole world had its eyes on Budapest due to Pope Francis’ visit. Therefore, it was quite startling that the world-famous American journal The New York Times mixed up the Hungarian capital with Bucharest and reported on its official Facebook page that the head of the Christian church visited Romania. The mistake had been corrected more than 14 hours after the article was published.
Another similar confusion has been noticed by Peter Murphy which can be seen on the second photo of his Twitter post.
Namely, the French public broadcaster BFM has mixed up Hungary with Romania.
The photo clearly shows that the channel presented Romania as two separate countries (in green and purple), forgetting about Hungary – which along with France – is also a member of the European Union.
In addition, there is even more confusion regarding the positioning of Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia, all of which were presented as Bulgaria.
It seems, reporters at the French TV channel and overseas still have room for improvement when it comes to Europe’s geography.
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Source: origo.hu
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8 Comments
It is time for uneducated Americans to stop talking about Hungary. CNN, New York Times and Democrat House Speaker have absolutely no idea where the country is located, their language or government. Stupidity should not be exhibited to the world.
It’s not a mixup – CNN lies all the time and they decide what the news is or avoids any discussion at all.
When a major scandal of the US president and his family are involved with little coverage – only after almost 2 years and the NYT finally admits it’s all true with many Eastern Europe countries involved along with China
No great surprise. With the exception of Fox News, the so-called “main stream” media in the US is quite proud of being under- or mis-informed on a whole slew of things. And when they admit their faults, such as their lack of interest in the Hunter Biden scandal, they shrug it off. No apology, no admission of journalistic malpractice.
CNN is very sloppy, that is true. But Fox News is not news, it is a channel that is a sort of visual comic, a grotesque projection of Rupert Murdoch’s agenda and a stage for narcissists.
So far Fox New has not been accused of telling lies. Fox news has programs that air news and some that air opinions. It really is the only channel that is wort watching.
Fox News does tell lies. Just google Fox News, Seattle Lies. That is just one example, where they are caught out red handed. But that is not really the point, it is the way that it gives a stage to people who disseminate extremism. It is a sort of right wing freak show that is entirely geared towards advertising revenue, just like Rupert Murdoch’s other news platforms.
Dear Leven: I checked the site. Two people were murdered during the protest in Seattle, that is not peaceful. A section of the city was taken over that terrified residents and businesses. That is not commonly called peaceful. BLM protest destroyed cities, people were killed, police officers assaulted. Fox news reported all the destruction. Rupert Murdoch is a remarkable man that insist that his media empire broadcasts the truth.
Tucker Carlson visited Hungary and reported the truth. Unlike socialist leftist media, their lies get bigger daily.
CNN, also known as the Clinton News Network is dead last in cable news ratings. They are a trash network, not worthy of the title “news”.