On Saturday evening, the Youth News went wrong with reporting on the earthquake in Wirdum. In the broadcast, the Groningen village was located in Friesland.

Now Friesland also has a village called Wirdum. That is under the smoke of Leeuwarden.

The Youth News is not the first medium to confuse Groningen and Friesland.

Last week de Volkskrant blundered with a big infographic on nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands. The text ‘Groningen’ was accidentally pasted on Friesland and vice versa . There was a lot of fuss about that. A day later, de Volkskrant came out with a correction.

Read the coverage on city blog Sikkom here .

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