Someone didn’t get the memo

Back in July, the rapper now known as Jay Z informed various media outlets that he was removing the hyphen from his name. Someone at the Yahoo! front page got that memo and someone didn’t:

Can you spot what’s missing?

OK, so I made this too easy for you. But it was apparently too difficult for the writers and editors at Yahoo!, because they didn’t spot the missing letter on yahoo.com:

Or the letter that went AWOL on Yahoo! Movies:

Or the typo (let’s be charitable and call it a typo, not a misspelling) on Yahoo! News:

 

Isn’t that what bullies do?

Bullying is a serious issue that’s the subject of newscasts, TV specials, and Internet articles. Most coverage focuses on the victims of bullying, but Yahoo! Shine turns the spotlight on the bullies. I always thought that bullies had no problem standing up for themselves, so is this news?

Well, it’s not news that the writer made a slight omission. It’s the victims of bullies who are standing up for themselves publicly.

Bryan Cranston goes further

Bryan Cranston went further than necessary when he treated a young California couple to a special weekend. The couple traveled farther east to New York City. The writer for yahoo.com should have gone a step further and asked an editor about the difference between farther and further:

Here’s what the American Heritage Dictionary says:

Since the Middle English period many writers have used farther and further interchangeably. According to a relatively recent rule, however, farther should be reserved for physical distance and further for nonphysical, metaphorical advancement. Thus 74 percent of the Usage Panel prefers farther in the sentence If you are planning to drive any farther than Ukiah, you’d better carry chains, and 64 percent prefers further in the sentence We won’t be able to answer these questions until we are further along in our research.