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Fox News redraws map of Eastern Europe, abolishing handful of countries

Thu, Jan 05 2012 12:16 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Fox News redraws map of Eastern Europe, abolishing handful of countries

FOXING ISSUE: A 2007 ceremony adding Bulgaria to the EU map - in its correct place.

Photo: Reuters

US television network Fox News on January 4 showed a map of Europe containing a number of errors, including erasing Macedonia and other former Yugoslavian countries, while Bulgaria occupied the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

This is according to Macedonian online news edition Kurir, quoted by Bulgarian news agency Focus.

On the map, Serbia was placed over the territory of Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic.

The map, of which Kurir posted a photograph, was shown during a newscast focused on the elections in Iowa.

Kurir said that apart from Macedonia, Fox also erased Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro. They were replaced by a country which resembled the former Yugoslavia but which was identified as Bulgaria.

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Преглед на профил just_tired Fri, Jan 06 2012 03:38 CET
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It is Bush's fault

Преглед на профил philip_lonsof Thu, Jan 05 2012 15:13 CET
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It was probably an error... but since when has that prevented the Fox-haters from doing their thing?

If this had been, say, CNN or some other liberal outlet, this would almost certainly have been deemed a non-story.


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