Infiniti Commercial

A television commercial for Infiniti cars starts out: "If no one ever challenged the status quo, the Earth would still be flat....."

Well, no. Earth was never flat. Dark Ages Europeans may have thought so, but they were an uneducated lot, on the whole. Even then, educated Europeans interested in such things, and Moslem scholars, and others in the world, understood Earth is round.

Yes, the only point of the commercial is to sell cars, and yes, the flat Earth notion is commonly accepted in our culture, but its still fair to point out when mass media is sloppy.