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Our aggregating script regrets the error…

Sharp-eyed Francie Williamson spotted this over the weekend.

This is a Google map accompanying a story, posted at a news site, about Russian troops moving into Georgia.

There’s a problem with the map, though:

Georgia map

Ouch!

Yeah, yeah. Sherman did it; why not the Russians?

Find our earlier thread here about really bad advertising juxtapositions.

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One Response to “Our aggregating script regrets the error…”

  1. Lindsey Says:
    August 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Ouch.

    I spotted a much less egregious but still kind of weird map/story combo last week too. The story was about South Ossetia but was datelined Washington, D.C., and the map was of, naturally, D.C.

    http://theogeo.com/blog/?p=2059

 

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