Youth news locates earthquake-ravaged Wirdum in Friesland

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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