By Kaya Burgess
All journalists appreciate the perils of reacting to breaking news stories under pressure, but the geographical grasp of the map-makers at America's most popular news channels is impressive.
UPDATE Jan 30th 2012: Another gem of American geography has arisen today, as CNN report on the "London phone-hacking arrests" that took place in Britain's capital which, far more controversially, seems to have been re-located to the middle of Norfolk:
In Fox News's map of the Middle East, below, Egypt has mysteriously turned up in the middle of Iraq which, perhaps due to the best efforts of Fox pin-up boy George W. Bush, has been wiped from the map entirely:
Meanwhile, the rebel forces in Libya riding through downtown Tripoli would have been devastated to learn that they had accidentally seized a town with the same name in southern Lebanon and would have to start all over again, if CNN's map below is anything to go by:
And as if Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou didn't already have enough to be embarrassed about, he would certainly have been red-faced if he had followed CNN's instructions below and turned up in northwestern Spain when heading to Cannes for crisis talks:
.You do begin to wonder whether the parody map below, featured in The Times last week, is actually on the curriculum in American journalism school:
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