Yahoo News Oopsie

[Mr Light]

So I hopped on Yahoo News this morning and there was a headline about Roman Polanski being arrested in Switzerland. I clicked on the link, and this was the "article" inside!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_en_mo/eu_switzerland_polanski

Swiss arrest Polanski on US request in sex case

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http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090927/i/ra963438657.jpg?x=213&y=156&xc=1&yc=1&wc=410&hc=300&q=85&sig=n9WHSa_jLuf7NStAh2AjiQ-- Reuters – Polish director Roman Polanski attends a news conference for the film "Chacun son Cinema" at …

• http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090927/t/ra963438657.jpg?x=50&y=50&xc=19&yc=1&wc=95&hc=95&q=85&sig=0T.7rgcLesxdayFCN_3ATA-- Slideshow:Director Roman Polanski
• http://d.yimg.com/a/p/reuters/20090927/videolthumb.b4650b9d935754900a6a877090e6f1db.jpg?x=50&y=50&xc=41&yc=1&wc=240&hc=240&q=85&sig=xzuhASTcuh79hHkw.srHvw-- Play Video Video:Roman Polanski arrested Reuters

3 mins ago
OK, can you do some more probing? New York will want to know
frank's out today.
i checked already, and so did zurich. they say the question is irrelevant. he answered me with the quote i used, about we knew when he was coming this time. he's been here many times in the past, we think.
thx brad. aptn is aware, but unfortunately won't make it in time, but is hoping to catch tail end.
i'm pushing out another writethru with some more background details before press conference.
no surprise, new york is really hot on this.
they particularly want to know why now. (has he never set foot in switzerland before?) sheila, theorizes that's because they're under intense pressure over ubs and want to throw the U.S. a bone, but can yo ucheck with justice department sources there?
is frank around too, or are you alone?
u can tell aptn press conf 1700 (15 gmt) in bern at the parliament
i'll watch it live on internet


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[Holdfast]

^ more interesting than the actual article.


Though I do approve of Polanski's quote of "people think I'm a profligate dwarf".

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Whoa, is that actually the reporters talking to each other? If so--did you get a screencap or anything to back that up?

 

[Mr Light]

Nah, I just copied and pasted the text. So I guess you'll have to take my word for it It looks like the editor and writer exchanging emails and then that accidentally got uploaded instead of the article. An interesting look behind the scenes!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Odds are they were using the article draft as a "scratch pad" before they came up with the final copy to post. It's not unheard of!

At least there was nothing overtly incriminating in it. It actually looked like a group of people doing their research and verifying shit!

 

[Mr Light]

I dunno... this Frank sounds like a real slacker

 

[tharpdevenport]

These guys type like text messaging middle school girls. Its horrible.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I have a friend who is a journalist with Yahoo Canada, and mentioned this to her. She says that they get all of their news as a feed from Associated Press, so this was likely a conversation between two AP people, not Yahoo employees.

 

[CaptainStoner]

I'm phasing out yahoo entirely due to their practices in China.

 

[Joshua Howard]

These guys type like text messaging middle school girls. Its horrible.

I have always assumed that paid journalists know better than to use "i'll" and "u". Nevertheless, with "frank" gone and all, I guess we have to take what we can get.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

These guys type like text messaging middle school girls. Its horrible.

I have always assumed that paid journalists know better than to use "i'll" and "u". Nevertheless, with "frank" gone and all, I guess we have to take what we can get.

This was clearly an accident and not something they intended to go public. Who cares if they communicated informally? As long as that's not what ends up in the public version of the story, why does it even matter?

 

[tharpdevenport]

These guys type like text messaging middle school girls. Its horrible.

I have always assumed that paid journalists know better than to use "i'll" and "u". Nevertheless, with "frank" gone and all, I guess we have to take what we can get.

This was clearly an accident and not something they intended to go public. Who cares if they communicated informally? As long as that's not what ends up in the public version of the story, why does it even matter?

It's not just a matter of informally (though even in IM I try to type properly), but rather the poor wording and borderline unintelligible sentences.

 

[Canadave]

I have always assumed that paid journalists know better than to use "i'll" and "u". Nevertheless, with "frank" gone and all, I guess we have to take what we can get.

This was clearly an accident and not something they intended to go public. Who cares if they communicated informally? As long as that's not what ends up in the public version of the story, why does it even matter?

It's not just a matter of informally (though even in IM I try to type properly), but rather the poor wording and borderline unintelligible sentences.

So? Journalists are people too, and when dashing off quick communications about something that aren't supposed to go public, then yeah... they are going to use informal language and short forms.

 

[Spot's Meow]

It actually takes me a lot more work to type improperly, using "u" or "b4" or whatever else they say. I type pretty fast normally and learned in a formal typing class so proper grammar just comes naturally...plus it looks and sounds so much better. Much easier to read as well.

I've often found that those who use this "texting language" are actually on both ends of the spectrum - the young kids and the older folks. It seems like those who didn't grow up with computers and formal typing classes are actually quite guilty of the slang language.

 

[M'Sharak]

I have always assumed that paid journalists know better than to use "i'll" and "u". Nevertheless, with "frank" gone and all, I guess we have to take what we can get.

This was clearly an accident and not something they intended to go public. Who cares if they communicated informally? As long as that's not what ends up in the public version of the story, why does it even matter?

It's not just a matter of informally (though even in IM I try to type properly), but rather the poor wording and borderline unintelligible sentences.

It's more like a chat log that accidentally got posted in place of the article to which it refers, and it's more the jargon with which you're unfamiliar that makes it unclear than it is the informality.

Besides, Tharp...

These guys type like text messaging middle school girls. Its horrible.

...where's your apostrophe? And your hyphen, while we're at it?

 

[Joshua Howard]

My biggest grammar issue has always involved sentence suffixes and quotation marks. As an example, the following sentence is - I believe - correctly formatted:

According to John, it was "successfully integrated."

In my mind, the above is not necessarily acceptable. I am quoting John and ending a sentence at the same time. By placing the period within the quotations, I am implying that John was also ending a sentence when he spoke those words. Thus, I generally in a situation such as the above would rather suffice:

"successfully integrated".

In other circumstances, such as the following example, I sometimes see fit to end a sentence with two symbols:

John said "Is it time to go yet?".

When it comes to emphasis and quotation marks, I have fought with myself over the best rule to use when it comes to a standard for applying them. I finally settled on using common sense and not worrying about whether it is always 100% technically correct.

I lean toward being over particular when it comes to English and Grammar, whether written or spoken. I think that attention to words is a basic sign of mental soundness.

 

[tharpdevenport]

This was clearly an accident and not something they intended to go public. Who cares if they communicated informally? As long as that's not what ends up in the public version of the story, why does it even matter?

It's not just a matter of informally (though even in IM I try to type properly), but rather the poor wording and borderline unintelligible sentences.

It's more like a chat log that accidentally got posted in place of the article to which it refers, and it's more the jargon with which you're unfamiliar that makes it unclear than it is the informality.

Besides, Tharp...

These guys type like text messaging middle school girls. Its horrible.

...where's your apostrophe? And your hyphen, while we're at it?

They're located about a million miles above those guys' ones...