Yes, well. Either Mitt Romney or President Obama is ahead in a poll in Florida. That’s the bold statement made on the Yahoo! front page:
Of course, it’s possible that the conflicting results are from two different polls. Doesn’t matter to me. I just think it’s funny that the editors would juxtapose these two headlines. 
Gawd. Is this what happens when you outsource writing? That’s the only explanation I can think of for this on the Yahoo! front page:
If two people have similarities. they share physical traits or characteristics. They don’t share similarities. And under no circumstance does someone share similarities to someone else. The actor shares some physical traits with the beloved character.
I’ve reported on a lot of really, really stupid mistakes made by the writers and editors for the Yahoo! front page, but this has got to be the most egregious error ever:
The little boy is Etan Patz. It was a horrible crime, and horrible reporting. It will be hard to top this error — even for Yahoo! staffers.
I don’t mean to disrespect those who have passed, but did Joe Paterno rise from the dead? No? So how is it that he and his widow are getting a lot of money?
I know that the writers on the Yahoo! front page make a lot of stupid mistakes — every day, in fact — but nothing as stupid as using the wrong pronoun for a person. Until now.
You’d think that Olympic athletes would be in top form, capable of walking up a few flights of stairs. But nooooo. According to the news on the Yahoo! front page, some Australian athletes are fuming about being asked to walk up:
Niagara Falls falls victim to the keyboard of an editor working on the Yahoo! front page:
Is this misplaced question mark part of a pattern of errors on the Yahoo! front page?
Yes, yes it is. The writers for yahoo.com have a problem placing punctuation relative to a closing quotation mark. In this case, the text “Pattern of misconduct” is really the question; “Senate asks …” isn’t the question. You can tell because the writer uses the word asks. The question mark belongs within the quotation marks.
What do you call a Loch Ness Monster look-alike? Well, it ain’t this:
Lochness doesn’t even make sense. The lake in Scotland is Loch Ness. So, a Loch Ness-like creature would be a creature like a lake. Perhaps the writer meant the monster allegedly residing in the lake — the Lock Ness Monster or Nessie.
I know I can be mean when I poke fun at writers and when I make fun of their inability to master the most basic of English expressions. I am a mean girl. But I believe that anyone who writes for the Yahoo! front page shouldn’t still be in an English As a Second Language class:
The writers on the Yahoo! front page are paying the price for neglecting to proofread:
The people who really suffer, however, are the readers who think that yahoo.com is a reliable source of news and information. If the writers can’t spot a misspelled Peyton Manning, what other mistakes do they let slide?
