MSNBC.com Coughs Up Yet Another Grammar Gaffe in a Headline

Web site linked to al-Qaida backs McCain

Posting says the network would welcome a pre-elction attack on the U.S.

Let’s for a moment just completely ignore the term “pre-election” and focus on its spelling. Yes virginia, that really is a headline with a spelling error. See the live version here.

The error has been corrected. The proles are starting to catch on.

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Posted: October 22nd, 2008 under Errors on Major Websites.
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MSNBC Can’t Get Grammar in Headlines Right.

Update** As of 10:18 am, the headline has been fixed. Seems like even MSNBC couldn’t let this one slide. Let’s pretend it wasn’t because of my e-mail to them (I couldn’t post this and just not contact them - it wouldn’t be sporting) and someone there has found their journalistic balls. Here’s hoping.

You know you’ve truly slipped through the cracks in the employment world when you can’t get a headline on a news story - a major news story - right.

Check it: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26953481/

Bush: ‘Painful and lasting’ economic damage

President wants of consequences if Congress fails to pass bailout bill

What consequences does he want - cookies? Little unicorns falling from the sky? Who knows. The MSNBC editors certainly don’t know - much of anything.

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Posted: September 30th, 2008 under Errors on Major Websites.
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MSNBC.com buggers up another major story

While it may not be a spelling or grammar mistake, our major screwup today falls on a major story in which the editors failed cut and paste in kindergarten. One of the biggest stories in the media is the failed bailout on Wall Street - perhaps a clue to the root cause of the failure lies in the sheer stupidity shown in the reportage on the subject.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/

Note the repeated paragraphs. Two of them.

MSNBC gets another gold star - for sucking and not caring!

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