Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Twitter me this

I've rarely used Twitter and have no earthly idea what twitterhit is.

Looks like somebody should be proofreading:

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Oh, no, Spock!

Link:





If the mainstream media can't get the spelling correct, are they reporting anything factually?

This can't be the first time Esquire has printed Nimoy's name.

UPDATE: Esquire spelled it correctly nine times in the past.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Munch ado

It's discouraging when professionals can't spell somebody's name correctly, and consistently, throughout one article.

Link:


Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Want did you say?

Not a spelling error or typo, but another example of poor or no proofreading at The Daily Snooze. Found by Apostrophe Teen. Link:

Thursday, July 16, 2009

There's an echo in here

Software problems at the Daily News?

Link (at the time of posting):








There are two identical articles, here and here.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

They hit a triple

Link (July 15, 2009 evening):













As of post time, they had three different links, too:

Here

Here

And here.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Call the police!

And see how they like having their name spelled wrong:




It's spelled correctly elsewhere in the article. What gives, Daily News? Surely you can do better than this!

And another thing: How in the world can you tell it's an "assault rifle" - whatever that is - from this evidence:




It can't be a hunting rifle, or a gun used for sport or target shooting, it has to be an "assault rifle"? Is that what the casings have stamped on them? Sheesh.

Again and again

From the front page of Fox News today:




OMG, they did it again in the article headline:





UPDATE:

I almost missed the other goof. The piece ends:
The lots of Hardcore Energize Bullet and New Whey included in the recall are:


And that's it. No more info.

Sheesh, Fox, I work cheap!