Some idiot at ABC7.com has a writing job, and I don’t. WTF?

I am absolutely sick of the crappy, unedited writing that makes its way onto major news websites. I’m not sure what kind of jackholes places like CNN and ABC have writing for them, but damn is there some crap out there.

For example, today’s main headline on ABC7.com (ABC’s Los Angeles affiliate) was “Police Investigating Fatal Accident, 1 Dead.” OK, that’s fine. Let’s move on.

First of all, there is no location mentioned in the whole article, other than “Baseline and California.” I can only assume that they’re talking about somewhere around Rancho Cucamonga or something, but have no way to know that for sure. Haven’t newspapers been putting a location at the beginning of their articles for at least 100 years? How hard is it to translate that to the web?

Second, let’s talk about spelling. The very first sentence in the story is “An inncocent bi-standard is dead this morning following what police believe was a street race that veered into oncoming traffic.”

Now I don’t know about you, but I have no idea what the hell a “bi-standard” is. I would even argue that not even the best spell checker in the world hass any idea what a bi-standard is. Looking a little closer, we realize that there wasn’t a spell checker anywhere near this article. Just the use of the word “inncocent” proves that much.

I am not a spelling genius, and I am not the best about editing and correcting the spelling mistakes on this here blog. But this blog also isn’t run by a billion dollar corporation, and I’m not getting paid a nice salary to write articles that get featured on the front page unlike this jackhole at ABC7.com.

Yes, it’s petty. But I’m a little pissed that I spent five years in a creative writing program and some jackhole is writing shoddy web copy. At least I can find solace in the fact that “the thrid driver is being questioned.”