The geographical knowledge of television networks and, specifically, of some programs, is once again in question. The saying is true that he who has a mouth makes mistakes, but there are blunders that, apart from going viral on social networks and outraged viewers, leave the person who creates the map in question in a bad light.
If on occasions we have seen towns like Torremolinos or islands like La Palma placed in a bad position, this time, Cuatro al día decided to place almost all Spanish cities in a place that did not belong to them. Because, what was Cáceres doing in Barcelona’s place? And that is just one example of the notorious mistake experienced this Tuesday.
If we look at newspaper archives, in recent years television programs have made major geographical errors. However, the normal thing was that they outraged a part of the population: the Valencians, the Canarians, the Alicante people… But, what happened this Tuesday on Cuatro al día has struck a chord with a large part of the Spanish people. And is it possible not to give even one and displace most of the cities in our country on the map? The answer is yes, and we will see why.
Cuatro’s magazine became the center of the target for broadcasting the map that we included in the lines above. It is a completely real map broadcast at 8:03 p.m. during the content preview of the second part of the program presented by Verónica Dulanto and José Luis Vidal.
In the image we can see how Zaragoza is located in the place of Madrid, the capital of Spain in the location where Salamanca is, which in turn was placed where Valladolid is normally located. If we look at the other side of the map, on its eastern side, we see that Cáceres moved there, in fact, it moved Barcelona to Lleida and Barcelona to Zaragoza.
Not to mention León, which, according to Cuatro al día, its citizens live in the Albacete area, and even Murcia, which took the place from Alicante, as Ciudad Real also did with Badajoz. Given the chain of blunders on the weather map, the networks were filled with fiery comments.
Among the most popular reactions: “But what have they smoked?”, “Everything is wrong”, “Put a geographer in your life”, “The cat ran over the keyboard”, “It seems to me that they have started preparing those maps to a three-year-old child or a Big Brother contestant”, “The best Zaragoza is in Madrid”, “It seems that the wind has stirred everything up a bit”, “Madrid still has no sea” or “This weekend I will to Ciudad Real de Extremadura after visiting León de Castilla La-Mancha.”
