When right is wrong

See that guy on the left in this picture from Yahoo! Shine? That’s Gordon Ramsay.

See the photo caption under the picture? That’s wrong.

Meg Whitman: Not the person you think she is

If you’re looking for information about Silicon Valley companies, don’t bother reading anything from Yahoo! Finance‘s “The Daily Ticker.” Anyone familiar with eBay knows that Meg Whitman was a CEO of the company, but she was not a founder:

What else is wrong?

I knew something was wrong when I read this on Yahoo! News‘ “The Sideshow”:

Having lived in Massachusetts, I knew all station call letters in that state begin with a W. So where is KCPQ? It’s in Tacoma, Washington. And it’s a Fox affiliate, not a CNN affiliate. So, how much of the rest of the article should we believe?

A most unique error

If something is unique, can it be more unique or even the most unique? Not according to most authorities. So, when the brainiacs who write for the Yahoo! front page called Joakim Noah “one of the world’s most unique athletes,” were they simply engaging in a little playful hyperbole?

You might be able to consider “most unique” acceptable, but can you accept that Mr. Noah’s sister is alleged to be an even more unique athlete? Because she’s not an athlete, she’s a model.

Not a Mensa member?

You don’t have to be brilliant to know that some writers for Yahoo! Shine aren’t exactly geniuses — at least when it comes to trivial parts of their job, like being able to spell and write with accuracy.

Kaiser Permanente is apparently too difficult for this writer to spell — or even just Google:

She seems to think that the word the is part of a family name (it shouldn’t be capitalized) and that only one person in the family has a lawyer (the apostrophe should be after the S):

Ah! There’s that apostrophe again. This time it’s not there to show possession but to create a plural. Which, of course, is wrong:

The Nikolayevs live in California, so it’s a little odd that their son would be moved to a hospital 3,000 miles away in Stamford, Connecticut. You’d think he’d be taken to Stanford Hospital, which is about 2,950 miles closer to home. But a writer who thinks that Child Protectice Services is a real agency, probably thinks Stamford is in California.

So, she’s obviously convinced you can form the plural of a name with an apostrophe and an S, and she has no idea that when you’re referring to Mom, it gets a capital letter (although if she meant “the mom,” it doesn’t).

And smack-dab in the middle of the article is a link, that the writer gets wrong on two counts: a missing hyphen in 5-year-old and the miscapitalized Mensa — an organization for high-IQ folks. I don’t think this writer is a member.

Revising history and calling it the news

In this revisionist article from Yahoo! News, the writer claims that Newt Gingrich won the Republican primary last year. There is no word as the outcome of the actual presidential election:

This just goes to show ya what can happen when you drop a word or two: It’s the first time Mr. Gingrich has returned since winning the state’s Republican presidential primary.

Entire state to eliminate every sport ever invented?

There’ll be no more basketball, baseball, football, golf, swimming, or quidditch anywhere in the entire state of Illinois. At least that’s the claim of Yahoo! Sports‘ “Prep Rally”:

Anyone curious enough to read the article (like me, for instance) would learn that the headline writer may have exaggerated a tad. Or maybe just forgot a word or two (like “high school”). Yes, a high school in Illinois may have to eliminate all extracurricular sports. That’s not quite what this writer said, though, is it?

This is the news

Here’s what is passing for the news on Yahoo! News‘ “The Lookout”:

Someone named Henneberg is getting a ship replaced, thanks to donors from all over the country. In the meantime, money continues to pour in to help buy Watertown (Mass.) hero David Henneberry a new boat — a vessel considerable smaller than a ship.

A sight for sore eyes

What’s the site of your image? The mirror over your bathroom sink?

Wherever it is, the site of your image is where you’ll catch sight of your image.

That homophonic error is from Yahoo! Shine, a site known (at least to me and regular readers of Terribly Write) for its writers’ errors. I am saddened by the fact that there’s at least one other horrific error — this time a ridiculous allegation:

She looks so young!

She looks so young to be a mother:

Nina Sanchez, seen above on a teeny bike with a police officer, is the mom of little Bella, according to Yahoo! Shine