 With almost two hundred nations attending thousands of diplomats meeting and any number of complex technical issues to be negotiated cop 26 isn't easy for any media organization to cover. However genuine complexity doesn't provide an excuse for a mistake made by US giant CNN this week that's because in their cop 26 coverage they fell at the first hurdle. They set up shop in the wrong city the star host wolf blitzer tweeted this morning I'm now reporting from Edinburgh in Scotland where twenty thousand world leaders and delegates have gathered for the cop 26 climate summit cop by the way stands for conference of the parties it's the 26th time they have gathered to discuss and take action on this critical. Issue thank you wolf blitzer for clarifying what cop means unfortunately you should have focused on where it was taking place instead of what the acronym stood for ashes they're going to be an intern going you know having a real nightmare today because they've booked studio space fifty miles away from where the conference was was actually taking place. It's a pretty hard mistake to make because people have been referring to cop conferences by their host city for ages now so we know it as the Paris climate accords we talk about Copenhagen we know it by the cities and Glasgow sounds very different this belt very differently is pronounced very differently from Edinburgh so I'm trying to work out was this a genuine mistake which is so boneheaded that it's frankly embarrassing that. An organisation the size of CNN could conceivably make it that nobody went hang on are you sure it's in Edinburgh and not the other big city that's in Scotland and or maybe was it deliberate it was a sense of going okay space accommodation all this stuff's our premium in Glasgow at the moment. Edinburgh a bit more empty not so far we can shuttle guests there and back enough. You know for us to get content out of it and we get the big castle in the background I'm trying to work out if this is actually a mistake or not because the mistake would be so stupid as to seriously stretch my credibility sorry my credulity not credibility although CNN have lost that to. Yeah I mean I suppose their defence would be yeah there's shortage of space in Glasgow but you thought if they made a decision on that basis also don't set Joe Biden flew into Edinburgh apparently so they wanted to be there when the plane landed I don't know. But you thought they would then be quite careful in what tweets they sent out to make it you know if we're gonna set up shopping Edinburgh we met we better make it really goddamn clear that we know the conference is in a different city. He definitely failed this morning was only got rinsed onto it. The thing the thing you've got to understand is that you know Americans are dealing with a much faster country back home all right the distance between Glasgow and Edinburgh is what they drive for a taco bell that's one of the reasons why their emissions are so high so I genuinely think that there is a chance that Americans will like. Edinburgh and Glasgow are kind of the same kind of the same place look at it on a map that's crazy that's like my kids school and just like fuck it. I don't know.