Local Paper makes a "Big Frogging Mistake"

The East Oregonian editors must have really had a bad day back in June of 2015 when this was pointed out to them (after publication)

Yet they owned up to it and even published an editorial about the good and bad of these mistakes... It is a good read.

http://www.eastoregonian.com/eo/editorials/20150609/our-view-big-frogging-mistake

USA Today needs geography lessons

In an article posted 17 May 2016 USA Today (famous for their "info-graphics") included this graphic about the (illegal) distribution of marijuana from Colorado:

Really?!?!?
For a publisher that claims to report the news of and to the entire USA, they really need to know which states are which.

The article was corrected within a few hours, so thanks to my Senior English teacher for sharing the original graphic!!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/13/when-smuggling-colo-pot-not-even-skys-limit/83623226/

PM confuses possession and contraction

One would think that a major, long-running periodical like Popular Mechanics would have the whole "proofing" and "editing" process down to a science after all this time. Yet, apparently their writers and/or editors do not know the difference between "your" and "you're" (see highlighted text in picture below)

My wife looked it over and found some other minor errors in punctuation as well.

Here is the link to the original story, though they MAY correct it by the time you go there.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/a20573/cargo-ship-to-yacht-62-million/