Mediaite Needs a Proofreader

After performing an inexhaustive survey of articles on Mediaite (but not its sister sites), I have found the following errors:

• Unnecessary commas.
• Missing verbs.
• Incorrect pronouns, e.g., “they” instead of “there.”
• Questionable priorities. (Is “irresponsible” really worse than “inflammatory”?)
• Misused words in titles. (Did MSNBC really “promote” Glenn Beck’s rally? Or did they just talk about it a lot?)
• Amusingly incorrect comparisons in titles, e.g., “MSNBC Appears to Be Promoting Glenn Beck’s Rally More than Fox News” implies that MSNBC is telling people to attend Beck’s rally, and to watch Fox News, but more to attend the rally.
• Incorrect punctuation, e.g., semicolon where a comma should be.
• Incorrect words, homophones. (“Cantor through [sic] a smile on his face”? Seriously?)
• Attempted parallel construction with words that don’t allow for it. (“…described, ridiculed, and bewildered at.”)
• Misuse of “exact.” (Unless physicists have successfully managed time travel into the past, Glenn Beck’s rally was on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, not the “same exact day.”)
• Incorrect interrogative pronoun. (“Who she accused” should be “whom she accused”; “whom” is the object of “accused.”)
• Missing punctuation.
• Missing spaces between words.
• Noun-verb disagreement. (“Media” is plural and takes “are”; “paparazzo” is singular, while "paparazzi” is plural.)
• Apostrophes in possessive pronouns. (Correct: hers, its, theirs. Incorrect: her’s, it’s, their’s. Apostrophes are used in contractions and with possessive nouns, but not possessive pronouns.)
• Missing subjects.
• Typographical errors (“in” instead of “is,” “cowtow” instead of “kowtow.”)

These errors and others like them are in almost every article over the last few days. The website’s founder Dan Abrams posted a lengthy article that was mercifully free of errors, and regular contributor Steve Krakauer also does a good job of keeping the errors at a minimum, but for the amount of original text in the majority of articles on Mediaite, too often I find myself stopping to try to figure out what the writer means to say.

The errors just get worse in comments, but a goodly number of the commenters need to brush up on their reading for comprehension skills before worrying about their writing skills.