CNN Flunks Geography: IDs Pennsylvania as New York

Matthew Balan | June 9, 2015
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

The 9 June 2015 edition of CNN's New Day stumbled as it covered the ongoing manhunt for two fugitives who escaped from a prison in New York State. An on-screen map incorrectly identified Pennsylvania as New York, as correspondent Polo Sandoval underlined that "the fugitives could be anywhere from New York's North Country up to Canada, or even south into Mexico."