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Search the CNN Web page for "Jerusalem" and here are the results:
[image listing the following locations:]
- Jerusalem, null
- Jerusalem, OH
- Jerusalem, AZ
Clicking "Jerusalem, null" brings you to the page for Israel, of course.
Could be an innocent mistake, you say? But that's not all—not by a long shot. Their "Weather Location Selector" lists Gaza and the West Bank as countries separate from Israel—and their list of Israeli cities includes several Arab villages which have not existed since 1948.
CNN: Even the Weather is Biased Against Israel
Seeded on Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:24 AM EDT
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I think we ought to boycott CNN until they fix this. If this gets enough press, then if it isn't resolved, hopefully CNN would notice a drop in their hits, and feel free-market pressure to fix this.
#1 - Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:34 PM EDTI clicked the link & got "Jerusalem, Israel". Since "null" is a data processing term, perhaps it showed up because Jerusalem, Israel would be the default if no state or country was indicated. Just a thought.
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#2 - Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:47 PM EDTLooks like they fixed it (after receiving 10,000 emails from LGF readers). You are right - null would show up when no country was indicated. And that is exactly the point. (I guarantee that no other capital city in the world was affixed with a null country indicator in CNN's database)
Not in the database, I meant from the users search argument. I did try some other searches - Rome, Madrid, Paris - no nulls showed up, although to be a valid test, I suppose it would have had to have been performed prior to whatever change was done for Israel to show up. But, as I used to say at my job - there's no test like production.
btw - I believe you re: guarantee.
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