Showing posts with label MSN Entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MSN Entertainment. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

It's Nickelback, 'kay?

I received this email - featuring a misspelling of Nickelback - from The MSN Entertainment Team on April 13, 2012. Click the image to enlarge it.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Shia LeBouef; Sasha Baron Cohen; Chris Isaack; Forrest Whitaker; Ana Faris

--"Best and Worst Moments of the 2009 MTV Movie Awards" on Sympatico / MSN Entertainment on June 1, 2009

This writer is a one-person wrecking crew in the field of names. It appears the writer is confident they've got Shia's last name correct, evidenced by the exact same spelling on two different photos. Compare and contrast LeBouef and LaBeouf. Does male actor Sacha Baron Cohen look like female skater Sasha Cohen? Their names are similar, but I don't think they look alike. Then, back-to-back, we have Chris Isaak and Forest Whitaker receiving the careless-spelling treatment. Lastly (thankfully), the writer gets an F for leaving an N out of Anna's name.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Is gay is the new Gucci?; he was Molly's shoulder's to cry on

-- "Is gay is the new Gucci?" on Sympatico / MSN TV Guide on October 22, 2008

How in the name of fun does a title like that make it to view? I read the article to make sure I wasn't missing something, but in hindsight I should have known better because there's no way that title could be correct no matter what the article contains. And the writer probably wrote shoulder's because Chris Diamantopoulos pronounced the apostrophe.

oh-so-easy easy for us; and at the end, and I couldn't

-- "'Survivor': First impressions" on Sympatico / MSN TV Guide on February 13, 2009

I'm guessing it's easier to write about Survivor than to be on it, but is it twice as easy for the writers and editors to overlook the extra written words? To fix the first error, simply omit the second easy. To fix the second error, simply omit the comma and the second and.