What’s wrong with the the?

What’s more embarrassing than a typo? Making it on the Web where it can be seen by millions of people, like the Yahoo! front page:

Apparently that’s a common typo, because it appears in Yahoo! News‘ “The Cutline”:

and “The Ticket”:

I just don’t understand why a spell-checker didn’t find the repeated word. My bad. I was just assuming the writers use a spell-checker.

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