{"id":1357,"date":"2019-04-03T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:17:03","slug":"bb-fox-news-map-labels-every-country-outside-usa-as-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"BB: FOX News map labels every country outside USA as Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fake News Geography? <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/map-in-fox-news-offices-labels-every-country-outside-the-us-as-mexico\">Map in FOX News Office<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a49bdfde200b-400wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13041\" title=\"Mexico FOX map\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a49bdfde200b-400wi.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a49bdfde200b-400wi-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a44e1111200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"> <\/a><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a44e1111200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;world map&#8221; displays the USA at its center. Then, it has arrows pointing in the general direction of every other country. All of them are called &#8220;Mexico,&#8221; though each name has been embellished with a helpful descriptor to distinguish all the Mexicos from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to us to get facts right, and that&#8217;s why our reporters often reference this handy map,&#8221; said a Fox News host giving a tour of the offices. &#8220;Our journalists will double-check whether or not they have the name of a country right. For instance, you don&#8217;t want to get caught accidentally referring to Mexico Mexico as Moose Mexico or Oil Mexico as Tea Mexico. That would just be embarrassing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake News Geography? Map in FOX News Office The &#8220;world map&#8221; displays the USA at its center. Then, it has arrows pointing in the general direction of every other country. All of them are called &#8220;Mexico,&#8221; though each name has been embellished with a helpful descriptor to distinguish all the Mexicos from each other. &#8220;It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13042,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/13042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}