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Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

dumblonde — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:43:07 EDT

@anonymousryan: See. relevant according to whom? Our Western-biased standards? The lack of coverage of Africa is really appalling.

dumblonde

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

luckyjim — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:22:37 EDT

I like the titles given to the Times and the Sun: ' former paper of record' (emphasis mine) and 'daily joke'.

luckyjim

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

miss_msry — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:19:17 EDT

South Florida isn't getting enough love.

miss_msry

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

ambitious — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:53:32 EDT

@anonymousryan: I know. Did you hear about Zoo-besity? It's very serious and very relevant. Kenya needs more zoo-besity if it wants to be heard.

ambitious

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

doolittle — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:52:47 EDT

California is totally ignored by the media. like totally.

doolittle

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

PimpMyCouch — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:26:29 EDT

@Sarcastro: According to this map, only about half of Canada is mildly important. Or on fire. I'm not really sure which.

PimpMyCouch

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

Screen Name — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:46 EDT

Call me a dreamer, but I would really like to see a three-dimensional map that represents each country with a color based on geographic location and political boundaries including life size topographical features. It would be helpful if this map also came with a key indentifying liquor stores and pubs.

Screen Name

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

anonymousryan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:03:17 EDT

Countries with more relevant news events get more news coverage?! Quelle horreur!!

anonymousryan

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

andheartss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:59:50 EDT

I think I care more about Africa than Canada.

andheartss

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

fiveinchtaint — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:59:40 EDT

Greenland gets the cold shoulder but they only have themselves to blame, what with their icy detachment. Hey now!

fiveinchtaint

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

SidAndFinancy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:56:45 EDT

@bandit: Wait -- what's New Zealand, then?

SidAndFinancy

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

acridsheep — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:56:38 EDT

@FitnessMadeSimple: Turkey confit for le diner!

acridsheep

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

notsofresh — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:54:39 EDT

"Do all these articles about me make me look fat?"

notsofresh

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

yourfriendandneighbor — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:53:45 EDT

So, what's your point?

yourfriendandneighbor

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

FitnessMadeSimple — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:53:33 EDT

@acridsheep: Now that you mention it, if you stuck some tail feathers on it, Eurasia would look just like a festive Thanksgiving turkey.

FitnessMadeSimple

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

Phyllis Nefler — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:53:28 EDT

From the link:

Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them.

OK, I'm really immature.

Phyllis Nefler

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

FitnessMadeSimple — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:52:03 EDT

Without Bjork, Iceland would be gray, just like Namibia.

FitnessMadeSimple

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

MrInBetween — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:52:01 EDT

Someone tell Keller that a Madagascar bureau is long overdue.

MrInBetween

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

acridsheep — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:50:38 EDT

At a press conference announcing their findings, French cartographers chuckled at the mention that the UK looks like a Chicken head. In their version, US cartographers called France's likeness to a quivvering vagina purely coincidental.

acridsheep

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

rod townsend — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:48:07 EDT

That map totally makes your Iraq look fat. Get to the gym!

rod townsend

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

bandit — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:46:56 EDT

I think gray is just the normal world map, and the colored areas are the distorted map. Obviously there is no second country in australia, for example.

bandit

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

Sarcastro — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:46:45 EDT

Canada is not that important.

Sarcastro

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

bandit — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:45:43 EDT

The flaw is that the chart should account for population. Right now it suggests that newsworthiness would correlate with geographical size, which is clearly erroneous. In a neutral world, it ought to correllate with population. Greenland, for example, shouldn't be sized according to its landmass. And Israel obviously gets a lot of attention but the small physical size of the country doesn't make the relationship clear.

bandit

Watch Your Favorite Countries Get Ignored By The News In Brilliant Technicolor

Henifer Hropes — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:44:27 EDT

What do the "grey areas" mean? Does it mean that those areas weren't considered in the 'cartogram' or that coverage is so minimal that they didn't even make the cut for their own color hue?

Henifer Hropes