Who is your editor???
Please hire me to be your content editor, seriously. I see SO many grammatical and structural errors in the sentences of your content, DAILY. You are a terrible example to young people with that, and add to the conjecture of "fake news." I could use more money, seriously let me help you out!
Our editors work very hard to catch mistakes before they hit the web. However, with all the content they regularly publish to the page, they do occasionally miss some. We are sorry that this one slipped through but we are very grateful to you for pointing it out to us.
Please report this article and future ones at corrections@verizonmedia.com
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Karen Holdstock commented
More than one mistake. I see multiple errors of spelling, syntax, and general use of words (read to, too, and two) on a daily basis. It is making my head spin.
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pam commented
..you need to get a better proof reader... noticed so many flubs reading many articles today...you almost sound stupid...sorry...just sayin
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Bill Berkevich commented
A lot of these articles seem like they are written by people who are not natural english speakers. Far to many spelling and gramatical errors for a company that considers itself a professional organization. I'm retired and could easily provide this service for you.
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Keith Jarvis commented
"Judd responds to ... no becuasee of her message"
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Penn commented
This website reads like a North Korean profile of it's current leadership - but it's about Sean Hannity's daughter. Syntax, spelling, grammar, etc. What the heck?
https://sensepsychology.com/merri-kelly-hannity-sean-hannity-daughter/
Do you really want this as a link on your site?
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JB DiGriz commented
And the conclusion after almost a week is that ok, today is the first monday back at work after the new year break, so we'll give corrections@verizonmedia.com the benefit of the doubt, assume that there is a responsible human being at the other end, and not rush (although today is Jan 6) to any conclusions ... ha ha ha.
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JB DiGriz commented
And now it is January 5, 2020 with no change and no response to repeated e-mails to the "corrections" account.
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JB DiGriz commented
And now it is January 4, 2020, with no corrections to the article. However, somebody at Verizon/Yahoo had the time to take my original posting from two days ago and merge it into an older subject.
Or was it a bot program that did the merging?
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JB DiGriz commented
By the way, it's now Jan 3 and despite a couple of emails to their "corrections@" account, nothing has changed. It appears that very few humans are involved in running Yahoo News.
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JB DiGriz commented
My error report was merged into this topic, containing other dated complaints about the same issue: poor quality content from Verizon/Yahoo and lack of editorial action to correct the poor quality.
It just dawned on me that the errors are probably NOT from a human copying the content, but a bot program. Thus, it's still a human error because the programming sucks, but some overly paid business exec at Verizon is probably really proud of him/herself for using computers to generate content - even if the content is wrong/sucks/broken/mixedup. Look at all the salaries they don't have to pay, and so what if the content is poor - they're still selling ad space!
If this is the future of Yahoo, then yea, then after decades of being on Yahoo it's probably time to close my account and kiss Yahoo/Verizon goodbye.
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JB DiGriz commented
And now it's 15:40 eastern time.
I've worked a lot in journalism (newspapers, wire service, websites) and each one of them was pro-actively reactive when a reader pointed out an error. Efforts were made to fix errors asap.
I've also sent in corrections to many news sources like Reuters, AP and newspapers - and I do not recall ever that the error wasn't fixed within a few hours of me sending the headsup.Yahoo doesn't do much original news, but rehashes what's out there. That's what this article (meteor showers) is - simply a copy/paste of a NYT story. However, something screwed up in the copying and pasting, and some key parts of the original text are MISSING. The result is an article in which most of the feedback is "what a stupid article - why are the dates missing???"
So Yahoo has had much more than 24 hours already to note the screwup and fix it, yet nothing has been done.
This is NOT a good sign for the quality of the Yahoo brand, and to me appears to be indicative of the low priority Verizon is giving Yahoo.
Does Verizon want to phase out Yahoo? Doesn't make sense, given the vast numbers Yahoo still has with certain products. But if you're going to keep products, then allocate the resources to guarantee the quality. If you can't copy and paste an article (and somehow ***** up the link to the original article), then don't do it at all.
One wonders why Verizon keeps this "uservoice" going if the company isn't monitoring it.
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JB DiGriz commented
Ok...it is now 7am eastern time. This article has been up on Yahoo for at least 21 hours. I sent an email to corrections@yahoonews.com 3 hours ago.
Obviously, Yahoo has a thin holiday crew working overnight. Should we start a pool and take bets to see how long it takes them to correct the errors? -
JB DiGriz commented
2 errors in this article:
1) dates were not copied from the original NYT article
2) link to original NYT article is broken.
It is now 03:58 eastern time Jan 2 2020 and let's see how long it takes Yahoo to fix the errors... -
CAROLE ROTHMAN commented
Frequent misuse of the English language and misspellings.
Article headlines which has no content when clicked on for more information.
All is sloppy or no editing
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Rachel Crawford commented
Seriously hats off to the persons who are misspelling words, and giving incorrect story titles, and publish stories with a lack of truth. Do you not get the magical red squiggly that alerts you to a incorrect spelling? I didn't really major in English Lit. but I'm pretty annoyed when my grammar is more on point than that of your staff. Also get ALL the facts before posting a story. That S**T show with the 'YouTube star being decapitated' was just proof that social media and news outlets are ignorant to Quality versus Quantity. You'd rather put out a rushed, nonfactual, and incomplete story just to boost the number of readers instead of putting out meaningful quality work. Sad Yahoo, just sad. How about you give me a shot instead? Because obviously my grammar and punctuation is average at best, yet miles above some of your staff. And don't post conflicting titles that don't actually represent the story itself. 'Standoff with Gunman in Texas' shouldn't contain a story about a 9 minute encounter where police came upon a subject armed and presenting danger. Really I think you should redefine some things. And question what's considered a MASS SHOOTING? Because its pretty confusing 4 people shot is a mass shooting.
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sachin bisht commented
Hi Team,
I have found a major mistake in your web content on homepage .
You have mentioned date for T20 world cup as 21 February 2019, however year should be 2020.
Attached is the screenshot for same.
Please ask your web content team to correct the same.Thanks and Regards
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Mike Hendriksen commented
Hire a proofreader who knows how to spell. Or use a spell check. Your news articles are riddled with misspellings everyday. Makes you look unprofessional. For example, an article on the home page right now spelled Ted Cruz as Ted Cuz. And this is on the front page of the website!
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[Deleted User] commented
One of the featured stories on this evening's homepage did not match the story presented. Headline was about baseball, while the story had to do with horse racing. This happened a couple of times in the past as well. It seems that every day there are editing problems such as words running together, misspellings, etc. Makes the news staff look amateurish.
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Mike Lewis commented
Your "news" articles disappoint me on a daily basis with the misspellings and poor grammar. You lose, pretty much, all credibility right off the bat when you see a broken sentence or a misspelled word. You either don't pay well or you just don't care. Pity...
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Anonymous commented
an edit to my comment... the word "contain" should be spelled "contained".