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Osama or Obama? Yahoo! Gets Mixed Up

by Peter Mychalcewycz on February 18, 2009 at 02:12 PM


It has happened again. Another media outlet has mixed up the name of the President of the United States with that of the most disliked man on planet Earth.

The headline of yesterday's Yahoo! article entitled "Science Takes on Terror Hunt" reads, "A geographer uses innovative analysis to narrow Obama Bin Laden's location to three sites." Oops. This has happened before, and it will almost surely happen again (annoyingly).

We know the two names rhyme and everything, and that they're both sort of the most wanted men in the world (for completely different reasons), but isn't that what a copy editor is for? We all make little copy mistakes (especially us!), but we just thought we'd throw that out there, especially considering this particular type/mistake. Just a thought. Just give it a little check before it's published. Just a little one. [From: ValleyWag]

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