CNN just can't seem to help themselves. In a report confirming the identity of 'Jihadi John' on Thursday, the news agency accidentally took down the picture of the ISIL-affiliated killer and replaced it with a portrait of Vladimir Putin.
With US State Department officials constantly saying that Russia is as bad as ISIL, perhaps it was only a matter of time before CNN would start mistake the Russian leader for Jihadi John.
The gaffe is just the latest in what seems like a never-ending and hilarious series of bloopers made by the international news agency about Russia and Ukraine, the last occuring just last week, when CNN accidentally annexed Ukraine to Russia:
A silly blunder or back to the future? #CNN annexes #Ukraine for Russia http://t.co/3FXCDmb1XF pic.twitter.com/zozYcffKBe
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) 18 февраля 2015
Last summer, the agency had placed Slavyansk, a city in eastern Ukraine contested by Kiev and Donetsk rebels in Crimea about 500 kilometers southwest, in Crimea, which had broken off and joined Russia.
Channel CNN «moved» #Slovyansk which is in #Ukraine (Donbass) in Russian #Crimea .. - shock of such ignorance! pic.twitter.com/jcRS8jh82f
— marina witte (@MarinaWitt) 12 июля 2014
Earlier, commenting on referendums which had taken place in Donetsk and Luhansk regarding their status within Ukraine, CNN posted a graphic placing the referendum somewhere in Pakistan.
Whither #Ukraine? CNN map says in… Pakistan http://t.co/j3rl7xx5Xd pic.twitter.com/y12CM62WyM
— RT (@RT_com) 11 мая 2014
Eastern Europeans aren't the only ones to suffer from CNN's blunders over the years, which aren't confined to just geography, either:
Scottish voters have given it 110% according to CNN pic.twitter.com/0Z2WfYsiDx
— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) 18 сентября 2014
Dear @CNN, the area you marked "Nigeria" is actually "Niger"; Nigeria is the area below it. Get a map-reader, please! pic.twitter.com/e03Fv1pcC2
— Gimba Kakanda (@gimbakakanda) 6 августа 2014
US TV knowledge of Britain. pic.twitter.com/DOv2XuqxTj
— David Eckhoff (@theroyalfactor) 9 февраля 2014
