Well, you can’t expect a guy who runs a website that has as
many blatant copyediting errors per news story as Yahoo! to not have a few on
his resume, now can you?* Yes, apparently the Yahoo! CEO, some guy named Scott
Thompson (Oh, is it the guy from The Kids in the Hall? I can only hope! Then he could say it was just a
joke!), made a little boo boo on his CV: We all do it, but usually it’s to get
our first job! Didn’t he think
someone might find out? If I was him, I would say that it was a challenge left
for his news people to see if they were any good at uncovering a story. And
they really proved themselves (for a change!), as I am reading about it in a
Yahoo! News story! (Oops!)
Here’s the story, if anyone cares:
I’m surprised CEOs don’t cheat like this more often. After
all, they never seem to get in trouble for even the worst possible fraud, so
why not try trivial stuff like this too?
* I know, I’m hardly one to talk, right? But at least I try
to fix them later! Yahoo! just deletes their old posts! Oh, but maybe they don’t
have enough space on their servers to store text files? (Yeah, right! Even a crappy library keeps old
newspapers! You’d think Yahoo! would be proud of their work, right? Well, okay,
after reading it, you might not. But I mean in theory. They could at least keep
it in an archive, I should think.)
