How does a media company like CNN make this kind of mistake?

[tnlurker]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/politics/trump-buy-greenland-wall-street-journal/index.html


They are citing the Wall Street Journal. But still to not fact check the statement that Eisenhower purchased Alaska.


Aides expressed both expectation and reservation at the President's still-unclear interest in the idea and had questions about the island's military and research potential, the Journal reported. They pointed to those outside the administration floating a Greenland purchase as a potential legacy-builder for Trump, similar to President Dwight Eisenhower's purchase of Alaska, the paper added.

[empedocles]

1. Media seems to have gotten sloppier.

[Sherman A1]

2. One need remember that they are there to

fill airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed. They brush up against journalism on occasion, but it is not something planned on their part.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Well, they were off by less than 100 years. Wasn't that close enough?

[madaboutharry]

4. The US bought Alaska from Russia in 1867.

Alaska became a state in 1959 when Eisenhower was president.

There is no excuse for that kind of mistake.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Did these whackjobs floating the Greenland purchase think that Ike bought Alaska?

[Dennis Donovan]

6. William Seward negotiated the purchase of it in 1867

...and it became the 49th State on Jan 1, 1959, during Ike's second term.

Did she write the article?

[Atticus]

7. Uh, the article refers to Eisenhower's approving statehood for Alaska, not that he

purchased Alaska.

[TwilightZone]

10. It was corrected.

As noted at the bottom of the article.

[yardwork]

13. The reference makes no sense now, though.

This was a pathetic mistake.

[appalachiablue]

8. 'We don't need no stinkin' history education'

[fescuerescue]

9. corporations do not get smarter as they get bigger

They might be smart or might be stupid. But size has never made one smarter.

They don't get smarter. They just get bigger.

[TwilightZone]

11. Looks like they fixed it and noted the correction.