Boy does Yahoo! News suck!

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6. Yahoo! News is like a bunch of Journalism 101 students,

doing their first assignment and getting it all horribly wrong, yet the stories actually make it onto the web site with no editing. Frequent misspellings, bad grammar, incomplete sentences, and all sorts of other amateurish mistakes. Sometimes the stories are way too short; I remember one that was only one sentence long, and sometimes they are way too long, with boatloads of extraneous details. Sometimes they are clearly opinion pieces such as a recent diatribe by Ann Coulter, but are presented as "news." I think many of these unknown writers for Yahoo! are just journalism students sitting in Starbucks coffeehouses madly typing (and probably cutting and pasting material) to complete their articles quickly and get them sent to Yahoo! so they can get credit for them. The majority of people who post comments on the Yahoo! news stories seem to be right-wingers, and they constantly complain that Yahoo! has a liberal bias, yet I think they actually have a slight right-wing tilt. It would be OK if it was just another nutty right-wing web site but Yahoo! is trying to pose as a news organization so people take it seriously.