What kind of eggs do turtles poach?

Oh, dopey me. I thought that poachers were stealing turtle eggs in Costa Rica. But according to Yahoo! News it’s the turtles that are doing the poaching:

This is the news?

It’s not news to readers of  Yahoo! News that the writers and editors frequently make mistakes, including these that appeared at the same time on the same page:

That is supposed to be “Star Wars,” of course. And the Barbie Dreamhouse is trademarked:

And so is Ping-Pong:

The common noun for the sport is “table tennis.”

One of these is wrong

Let’s hope that one of these words on Yahoo! News is a typo, because I’d hate to think a professional scribe thinks both words are correct:

An infamous mistake

Many writers believe that infamous is a synonym for famous. It’s not. But they naively use that word without understanding its connotation. And nowhere do writers use it incorrectly more than on Yahoo!.

Now staffers at Yahoo! News have come up with a new infamous mistake:

Apparently Yahoo!’s writers aren’t the only ones who believe that’s a real word. It’s common enough to appear in the Urban Dictionary, which defines imfamous as “When idiots try to spell ‘infamous’ but get it wrong.”

What’s missing?

Don’t you think there’s a word missing in the caption on Yahoo! News?

I feel like there should be a preposition between “freedom” and “a long imprisonment.” I’m thinkin’ it’s “with.”

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?

Tired of writing in English?

Sometimes, when I’m writing photo captions for Yahoo! News‘ “The Lookout” I get really, really bored. So just for fun I’ll start writing in English and then switch to la française. N’est-ce pas drôle?

Orajel: What’s it really called?

The oral gel that you thought was called Orajel is really called something else. At least that’s what these quotation marks on Yahoo! News implies:

Why would you read any more?

This is the first paragraph of an article from Yahoo! News‘ “The Lookout”:

Why would anyone bother to read any more?

Phoningitin

Is this what happens when a “journalist” uses a cell phone to write an article? Does it always result in missing spaces, grammatical errors, and typos? Or are these errors unique to Yahoo! News‘ “The Lookout”?