Quincy Jones: I’m confident he’s a confidant

Unless Mr. Jones has undergone a transgender transformation, he was Michael Jackson’s confidant, not a confidante as claimed by Yahoo! omg!:

A confidante is a woman with whom secrets are shared.

Do writers ever read?

Do writers ever proofread what they’ve written? Not if they work at Yahoo! Shine:

Farrah Fawcett: Unintended humor amid the sorrow

In a Yahoo! TV tribute to the late Farrah Fawcett, the writer shows a penchant for humor:

Truly a disgrace

There’s no other word to describe this. It’s disgraceful. It’s disgraceful that a so-called professional writer misspelled Ryan O’Neal’s name:

If you harbored the misconception that bloggers — especially those who write for  Yahoo! Shine — are journalists, this should put that notion to rest.

R.I.P. English

For a subject that requires sensitivity, the passing of Farrah Fawcett gets the casual treatment, complete with error, on Yahoo! Shine:

An upper that’s a real downer

This should be an upper, but it’s just depressing:

It’s just one more error on Yahoo! Shine that could have been avoided by proofreading before publishing.

At’s all, folks!

Bat for Lashes gets a little shorter on the Yahoo! Music home page:

What are former proofreaders doing?

I wonder what former Yahoo! TV proofreaders are doing now:

Someone wasn’t taught too well

The writer of this excerpt from Yahoo! Shine “was taught classes”:

I don’t know what the classes were, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t spelling or English classes. Need some evidence? Consider this:

Even if precursor had been spelled correctly, it would make no sense here. That error was just the precursor to another misspelling:

Will someone please show this writer how to use a spell-checker?

Test your nutrition, not your knowledge

Test your nutrition? Yeah, that makes no sense. But that’s what Yahoo! Shine suggests: