SABC genius

A guest blog entry from @mrtuckbox, who is justifiably enraged at how crap SABC fact checking is. If it even exists. Thanks for the contribution, dude.

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The other day the Seacom cable had issues, most of SA had little or no connectivity and anger and desperation set in amongst web based businesses, online gamers, bloggers and even those that like the naughty stuff.

This was, according to SABC news, caused by a short or power outage between the “East” African “countries” of Lagos and Abidjan. I was listening to SAFM when I heard it, happened to listen the next hour to 5fm, heard it again, then eventually switched on another syndicated station an hour later to check whether they had changed it and heard it again.

I understand that English may not be the first language of the chap speaking in the clip, nor was he maybe even the person that wrote it, but for heavens sakes, East is the other side of Africa and Lagos and Abidjan are cities and not countries. This is simple geography. We learnt this at school, from atlases and globes on desks, we had no internet to study it, or google to search it, let alone interconnectivity for emailing and proof reading scripts.

Surely our modern day reporters know how to use the internet, when the Seacom cable is working that is?