Friday, February 01, 2008

Something is falling down, though it's not the bridges...

I might forgive the Travel Channel's Top Ten Bridges program for saying the 8th-ranked Sydney Harbour Bridge crosses "the harbor of Australia's capital;" Sydney is the capital of New South Wales, and since Canberra is inland, I suppose Sydney is as much a port for it as anything else, and in any case, the show wasn't mainly about Australia. Still, I would hope for clearer geographical knowledge from the Travel Channel.

However, the error that made my skin crawl came with the second-place bridge. The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Kobe, Japan--the world's longest suspension bridge--is a worthy choice for the top ten list. However, they kept calling it the "Akashi Kaiyko Bridge"--and spelled it that way in on screen text! It's appalling that a program about bridges would get one of the featured bridges' names wrong, and yet still air!

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