Showing posts with label Business Insider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business Insider. Show all posts

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Shoddy job, mate

Believe it or not, this is the headline of an article ("Facebook wants to hire this 17-year-old, but she's isn't sure she wants the job" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on June 25, 2012) written by a professional writer. It's posted on Yahoo! Canada Finance by someone on behalf of Business Insider. First, she's isn't sure should either be she isn't sure or she's not sure - not a love child of both. Second, I would say that this should be a, because this is the first mention of anyone (it is a headline, after all) and there is no picture. At the end of the article is this:

Did you notice how I included an image after the colon? That appears to be something that the "professionals" at Yahoo! could learn from me. Click an image to enlarge it.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Nicholas Carlson is actually a very poor proofreader

This is the start of "Mark Zuckerberg's Hidden Talent: Firing People" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on May 14, 2012. There must be a word or two hidden in the article's second sentence. Click the image to enlarge it.

Monday, January 23, 2012

This Yahoo! writer must be a has-been

This is the first sentence from the article ("Here's What 2016 Will Look Like, Says IBM" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on December 19, 2011), and the word has has no business being there. Click the image to enlarge it.