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Re:CNN Has a Strong Contender for the Worst Chart You’ll Eve... by arp242 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:53PM (#27624303)
> More than a few people at CNN signed off on this before airing to the world.

I always had the impression that a lot of this kind of stuff is produced in a hurry, not infrequently by lowly paid interns and the like. Especially if there's a news item just 30 minutes before airing time you got to race to produce this and there isn't really time for a proper signing-off procedure.

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Re:CNN Has a Strong Contender for the Worst Chart You’ll Eve... by betwixthewires on Thursday June 24, 2021 @06:47PM (#27624922)
You don't reverse an axis by accident.
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Re:CNN Has a Strong Contender for the Worst Chart You’ll Eve... by arp242 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @07:00PM (#27625033)
How do you know? Could just be a screw-up in the software they used to generate it somehow; i.e. they filled in the labels in the wrong order, were in a hurry, and no one noticed in time. I didn't even notice it originally.
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