Please don’t ask the editor for yahoo.com what the difference is between .0001% and just plain ol’ .0001. Someone’s head will explode. If the editor knew the difference, then this link on the Yahoo! front page:
would agree with the article behind it:
A so-called senior editor for Yahoo! Shine isn’t even trying to get the names of two well-known celebrities right. When you call actress Aubrey Plaza “Audrey,” you’re not even serious about your job. Add three misspellings of Will Ferrell’s name, and it’s time to consider another line of work:
Could it be that the brilliant, yet totally inaccurate, writer for Yahoo! Sports‘ “Prep Rally” has Steve Urkel on the brain? In a photo caption about high schooler Jahlil Okafor, the writer identifies him as Jahlil White.
Is he confusing him with Jaleel White, the actor who played Steve Urkel?
Or is he just a really, really sloppy writer?
How does someone get the job title of senior editor for Yahoo! Shine? Do you need to know anything about popular culture? Nope. In fact, you can screw up the title of the popular TV series “Downton Abbey”:
You can even screw up facts like the year that “Dangerous Liaisons” was released (it was 1988) and the year Madonna performed at the MTV Awards (it was 1990):
You can misspell Daniela Denby-Ashe’s name:
and drop the hyphen from Catherine Zeta-Jones:
You can even insert an apostrophe in Kaiulani and move the hyphen in Jenna-Louise Coleman’s name:
Forgot the comma in “Murder, She Wrote”? No problem!
Even if you get three out of three titles wrong (“The House of Elliott,” “Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna,” and “Downton Abbey” would be correct), you can still call yourself a senior editor:
Don’t be fooled by the masculine-looking characters in this photo from the movie “The Iron Lady.” According to Yahoo! Movies, no men are seen in the photo of Parliament:
Those characters in suits and ties must be very young, but old-looking, boys. Or women who’ve forgotten to shave that morning.
I just gonna spit it out: The writer for Yahoo! Sports‘ “Prep Rally” is an idiot. Or maybe he’s just a careless knucklehead.
In an article about the arrest of Jeffery McWhorter, accused of lewd behavior, the genius at the keyboard alleges that someone named Fagan was the person arrested:
Mr. McWhorter was arrested. Heather Fagan, a spokeswoman for the city of Orlando, commented on his arrest. And if the inability to record a simple fact were a crime, this writer would be under arrest.
I’m just gonna spit it out: The person who wrote this for Yahoo! Shine is an idiot:
Why? Because the person who defends an “MRS” degree is not a professor. Nowhere in the accompanying article does it state or imply that she is a professor. The writer of this photo caption/headline could not have read that article or is simply too intellectually impaired to understand that “executive coach and Princeton University grad” is not the same as a professor.
Struggling with geography (or maybe just spelling), the writer for Yahoo! omg! places a Lombardy municipality in Brazil:
For the writer’s benefit I probably need to explain that Lombardy is in Italy, which is on a whole ‘nother continent from Brazil. The city in Brazil is Säo Paulo.
Who knew there was another Belafonte known for his activism? I knew Harry Belafonte was the mastermind behind “We Are the World,” but I’d never heard of the Henry Belafonte who appeared on Yahoo! TV:
Oh, silly me. In the years since Sarah Palin quit her job as governor of Alaska, I thought she was trying to keep us guessing about her ambitions. I just wasn’t paying attention, because nothing could be further from the truth! Thanks to the “journalists” who work on the Yahoo! front page, I’ve learned that she hasn’t been keeping us guessing:
In fact it’s been years since she kept us guessing. Or perhaps the writer meant: For years she kept people guessing. Or: It’s been years that she’s kept people guessing. I’m just guessin’.
