USA Today did an article on Colorado Marijuana. This is the picture that went along with it.
Here is what pisses me off.
It’s one thing for a single graphic artist to make a mistake. But this had to make its way past at least one reporter and editor.
USA Today is based in McLean, VA, adjacent to the most expensive Zip Code in the South, as it is home to lobbyists, Congressmen, and the political glitterati who work in DC.
So when some journalists who grew up in Manhattan, went to Columbia, then went to work in the suburbs of DC see America, they see this.
This isn’t just a mistake.
This is a lazy contempt of the great plains states.
They can’t even be bothered to tell one big rectangle from another, and they don’t really care that they can’t.
It’s like when they call their maids Maria instead of Marta. It’s close enough and they don’t give a shit about the peons beneath them.
Man, I’m glad none of that Colorado marijuana being smuggled out of Wyoming is coming to Colorado.
Heh heh heh….took me a second to figure it out. TOO funny.
its McLean, VA
Not only do we not get much marijuana smuggled in from Wyoming, at least from local news reports, most of the marijuana smuggled into Idaho comes from Oregon. I-84 across southern Idaho has become a major drug smuggling corridor.
And they can’t even spell the subject of the article, either.
Hey, one rectangular state between the big river and the big ocean is pretty much like another. You’re way too picky.
(I’m assuming the mapmaker and editor could find the big river and the big ocean. I’m probably giving them too much credit.)