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US President Donald Trump has been criticized in the past for repeatedly calling CNN “fake news,” but there appears to be a glimmer of truth to his allegations.
The American news network published yesterday (October 7) a long pillory against Trump, in which veteran CNN journalist Stephen Collinson found fault with the president’s actions after contracting Covid-19.
Collinson criticized Trump’s attempts to downplay the virus and irresponsible approach to handling the crisis in the United States, among other questionable issues related to the president’s administration.
While they may all be constructive points, netizens found flaws in CNN’s own reports, one that specified Singapore as “not a country.”
For the sake of clarity, Singapore is a country, a nation with its own government and a land where the people take citizenship. Unless CNN was referring to Singapore, Michigan, which shouldn’t be the case considering it’s a ghost town these days.
However, the goal of CNN’s (flawed) table was to list the countries with fewer new cases of Covid-19 than the cases found within the White House during the past 24 hours. CNN is likely to remove the data from Tuesday’s Ministry of Health update, which confirmed seven new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 infection.
As of 6 Oct 2020, 12pm, we have confirmed and verified 7 new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection. Breakdown: 2 cases in the community & 5 cases residing in dorms. In addition, there are 4 imported cases. https://t.co/7hjmUaOjTT
— Ministry of Health (@MOHSingapore) October 6, 2020
As the host country of a historic summit between the leaders of North Korea and the United States in 2018, you’d think it put Singapore (as a country) on the world political map. Netizens were quick to point out the inaccuracies in the table, which implied more than a rejection of Singapore’s sovereignty.
3 mistakes on one page, CNN is such an unreliable media. Singapore IS a sovereign country; Papua was spelled as Papau; Sint Maarten is not a sovereign country but a part of Kingdom of Netherlands. https://t.co/XofNsUwisI
— 🍍🧋Ashley J (@AshleyvM) October 7, 2020
Eh @CNN, you failed Geography issit? pic.twitter.com/iPwBIM38Cc
— mrbrown (@mrbrown) October 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/ClaytonFopp/status/1313737467569287168
The graphic has since been removed from the CNN article, with just this correction note:
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