Edinburgh for Cop26!
Least it stops their mispronunciation of Glasgow (to rhyme with Mos-cow)
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...6-to-edinburgh
Eyebrows were raised at Cop26 on Monday when a veteran US news anchor announced he would be covering the climate summit from Edinburgh – 47 miles east of Glasgow.
Wolf Blitzer, a news anchor with CNN, wrote on Twitter that he was reporting from Edinburgh in Scotland, “where 20,000 world leaders and delegates have gathered for the Cop26”.
Byline Times’s chief Westminster correspondent, Adam Bienkov, replied with a map of Scotland, while Specsavers got in on the act, telling Blitzer that he “should’ve gone to Glasgow”.
A parody Boris Johnson account quipped: “You seem to have all the necessary attributes to become my next Foreign Secretary.”
Rumours have swirled around the conference that a mix-up at the White House left several American media teams based miles away from Glasgow.
The Guardian has contacted the White House Correspondents’ Association for a response.
But it wasn’t the only example of American journalists getting confused about the geography of Scotland in the opening days of the global climate summit.
Reuters’ White House correspondent Jeff Mason tweeted a picture of the US president, Joe Biden’s arrival in Scotland for Cop26, with the caption: “Arrived in Glasgow.”
Least it stops their mispronunciation of Glasgow (to rhyme with Mos-cow)
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...6-to-edinburgh
Eyebrows were raised at Cop26 on Monday when a veteran US news anchor announced he would be covering the climate summit from Edinburgh – 47 miles east of Glasgow.
Wolf Blitzer, a news anchor with CNN, wrote on Twitter that he was reporting from Edinburgh in Scotland, “where 20,000 world leaders and delegates have gathered for the Cop26”.
Byline Times’s chief Westminster correspondent, Adam Bienkov, replied with a map of Scotland, while Specsavers got in on the act, telling Blitzer that he “should’ve gone to Glasgow”.
A parody Boris Johnson account quipped: “You seem to have all the necessary attributes to become my next Foreign Secretary.”
Rumours have swirled around the conference that a mix-up at the White House left several American media teams based miles away from Glasgow.
The Guardian has contacted the White House Correspondents’ Association for a response.
But it wasn’t the only example of American journalists getting confused about the geography of Scotland in the opening days of the global climate summit.
Reuters’ White House correspondent Jeff Mason tweeted a picture of the US president, Joe Biden’s arrival in Scotland for Cop26, with the caption: “Arrived in Glasgow.”
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