Smaalenene Medier AS - 1 Story
1) Amerikanere stoppet med narkotika (By N/A) 15 February 2009
http://www.smaalenene.no/nyheter/article4128445.ece
In this story, the writer states: "Amerikanere stoppet med narkotika," but then writes: "Tre personer fra henholdsvis Amerika og Canada ble stoppet på grensen i Ørje klokken fire søndag ettermiddag." This is not correct. Someone from Canada is a Canadian, not from the USA. Canadians come from Canada, and Americans from the USA. Calling a Canadian an American is like a Canadian journalist calling a Norwegian a German or a Swede. The story was corrected the next day. This story would be like a Canadian journalist writing about a Swede and a Norwegian caught smuggling drugs into Canada, by writing "Two Swedes Caught for Drug Smuggling." Do Norwegians automatically think Mexicans, Canadians, or Bolivians when they hear the world Americans?
In this story, the writer states: "Amerikanere stoppet med narkotika," but then writes: "Tre personer fra henholdsvis Amerika og Canada ble stoppet på grensen i Ørje klokken fire søndag ettermiddag." This is not correct. Someone from Canada is a Canadian, not from the USA. Canadians come from Canada, and Americans from the USA. Calling a Canadian an American is like a Canadian journalist calling a Norwegian a German or a Swede. The story was corrected the next day. This story would be like a Canadian journalist writing about a Swede and a Norwegian caught smuggling drugs into Canada, by writing "Two Swedes Caught for Drug Smuggling." Do Norwegians automatically think Mexicans, Canadians, or Bolivians when they hear the world Americans?
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