It’s World Press Freedom Day, but the world press doesn’t get much respect from the Yahoo! Events team. In a tribute to the world’s journalists, Yahoo! manages to make at least one factual error:
WPFD wasn’t “created” in 1997; it was proclaimed by the UN in 1993. After a mistake like that, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the writer would undercapitalize UNESCO, use which when that is called for, and omit a word or two.
It’s not much of a tribute to Amira Hass when you misspell her name:
I wonder how this typo got by the spell-checker:
I don’t know who’s responsible for this ad on the site, but I think they could use a proofreader:
I don’t recommend they employ a Yahoo! proofreader.





May 3, 2010 at 9:28 am
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May 3, 2010 at 2:56 pm
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