Britney's double suicide attempts

-- Sympatico / MSN webpage, Saturday June 21 2008

Correction: Britney's two suicide attempts

A double suicide occurs when two people commit suicide at the same time. So writing "Britney's double suicide attempts" tells the reader that more than once Britney attempted suicide with another person. Reading the article, it is clear that the word two should replace double.

Pregant // Juno // going to far

MTV is taking a cue from the movie Juno and making a show called 16 and Pregnant.

According to the New York Post, 16 and Pregant is inspired by the movie, and will follow 16-year-old pregnant teens and document the “touching and scary phenomenon of young girls who are faced with expecting."

One teen that currently qualifies for the MTV show is Jamie Lynn Spears. Maybe she’ll do a guest appearance.

Juno, staring Ellen Page (who is actually 21), is about a 16-year-old high school student who has to deal with an unexpected pregnancy.

Though the movie received high acclaim from critics it also stirred a bunch of controversy when it was released.

Many critics believed the movie glorified teen pregnancy since the main character took to the task of having a baby rather nonchalantly.

Other reality show in the works by MTV include Busted, a show about teens going to far, breaking the law and getting busted (aptly named, no?), and an untitled 50 Cent project, an elimination/competition show looking for the next female singing sensation.

Ah MTV, always providing quality entertainment.
-- MTV brings 'Juno' to life with reality TV on Sympatico / MSN TV News (TV Guide), Friday May 30 2008

Corrections: Pregnant; Juno; going too far.

Yikes, three in one - a pretty short one, at that. The focus of the article is on a television show, and the writer couldn't get the title of the show right in consecutive sentences at the very start of the article. That is bad enough, but after correctly italicizing Juno the first time, it gets neglected the second time. And finally, "going to far"? I suppose the teens could be wreaking havoc in a town called far, which would make the writer's third error a lack of capitalization, but more likely to should be too.

Ah Sympatico / MSN, always providing quality writing.

Nathalie Merchant // think if the children

[Michael] Stipe, who has been allegedly romantically linked to both Nathalie Merchant (the chick from 10,000 Maniacs) and Stephen Dorff, referred to himself as a "queer artist" in a 2001 interview with Time Magazine...
...
It seems that gay people are everywhere in every day life but become fewer as we near the upper echelons of the art world, and out gay, mainstream rock stars can be counted on one hand, maybe two, which can only mean people are forced into the closet. And what kind of message does that send the children? Won't someone think if the CHILDREN???
-- Michael Stipe's sexuality not news on Sympatico / MSN Music, Tuesday March 25th 2008

The chick's name is actually Natalie Merchant. As for the latter bold-type, if children think then at least one person should think? Is that what you're saying? Or should if be of? That's more likely..

consumed heroine

The prison guards found [Amy] Winehouse's husband laying on the ground violently vomiting. According to authorities, [Blake] Fielder-Civil consumed heroine and a toxic substance with five other inmates.
-- Amy Winehouse's Husband Overdoses on Sympatico / MSN Music, Monday February 18th 2008

Who was it.. Rachel Corrie? Betty Krawczyk? Xena?