# Hmm...Is This A Bit Fishy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmm-is-this-a-bit-fishy/662968>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 8, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmm-is-this-a-bit-fishy/662968 "2013-07-08T19:56:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmm-is-this-a-bit-fishy/662968/1 "2013-07-08T19:56:22Z")

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So I am looking through CNN and see a news story and click on it and get this at the top:

“ **Read a version of this story in Arabic or Spanish**  
San Francisco (CNN) – Investigators looking into the fatal crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 are focusing on the crew and aircraft as they try to understand why the giant jet clipped the end of runway before crashing, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.”

So, uh…why only in _Arabic_ or Spanish? No German, French, Italian, Chinese, Korean? I mean, seriously…are there tons of Arabic speakers flocking to read the article about the plane crash on CNN?..and is this sort of like the lamest excuse to get all of them to click on the magic button or what?

Why don’t they just say, “Click here if you are a terrorist doing research.”

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmm-is-this-a-bit-fishy/662968/2 "2013-07-08T20:05:52Z")

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_Every_ page on [cnn.com](http://cnn.com) gives you the option of switching between 4 different “editions” of the web site: US, International, Mexico and Arabic.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmm-is-this-a-bit-fishy/662968/3 "2013-07-08T20:13:32Z")

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Yeah, something should be done about all those Spanish-speaking terrorists.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmm-is-this-a-bit-fishy/662968/4 "2013-07-08T20:51:00Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> Yeah, something should be done about all those Spanish-speaking terrorists.

Actually, it is those sneaky Canadians up north we should really be watching carefully, eh?

OK, so maybe it wasn’t fishy…I guess I just have never noticed the option for ARABIC when reading CNN, although I read it almost every day, guess I wan’t reading closely.

My bad.