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An interesting wildlife story on the CBC website demonstrates how geographically challenged are some CBC reporters. The headline reads:<\/p>\n
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We know we are in trouble immediately when the subtitle speaks of the “West Kootenays”. Alas, there is no such place. There is a West Kootenay and an East Kootenay, which together make up\u00a0the Kootenays. (See a discussion at plural ascending<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Ok, let us assume that the plural use of a singular place was just a\u00a0lapsus calami<\/em>. We are told that it is recovering there. But, where was it found and where is it recovering? The story tells us:<\/p>\n Huh? Neither Smithers (where it is recovering), nor Midway (where it was found) are in either of the Kootenays, let alone in the West Kootenay.\u00a0<\/p>\n The story is at Orphaned bear cub<\/a>, but an editor may have fixed the text by the time it is viewed again, so I used images to preserve the original.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting wildlife story on the CBC website demonstrates how geographically challenged are some CBC reporters. The headline reads: We know we are in trouble immediately when the subtitle speaks of the “West Kootenays”. Alas, there is no such … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/orphanedbear131227b.jpg\")
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