Do they even bother to read the nonsense they write?

[monsoon]

Better look before they erase this The title is great. haha

We love you WCNC for keeping us entertained.

[bthomas]

The grammar usage is so bad, you'd think I wrote it.

You know how we do.

[DigitalSky]

how the hell... lol. That's funny, it's AP wires of course so i'm sure WCNC isn't the only site using the story. If it appears in the newspaper or something, someone oughta send it into Jay Leno or something.

[UptownGrrl]

I'm saving that one. Looks worthy of sending to Jay Leno for headlines (though, its really not funny). Unbelievable.

[monsoon]

One wonders why Charlotte's self proclaimed "Carolina's News Channel" needs to go to AP for a story about the Carolinas. haha. Even worse, why do we get stuff from them they don't think is worth reading by their own people.

[skysdalimit]

Lol, no major problems.

[DigitalSky]

i have to add to this - http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/local/partner/ charlotte.com incorrectly spelled local town Wadesboro as 'Wadesborough'

[monsoon]

Wow! There was a time when newspapers, including the Observer, simply did not make mistakes such as this.

[Rickydavisfan21]

I am now beginning to die on the inside, oh my insides are officially dead, and so is my head, this truely makes me what to kill somone.

[Rickydavisfan21]

oh and wadesborough is not spelled wrong that was its original name, thank you very much, if you read the context that it is used in. They just never mentioned when it was changed from wadesborough to wadesboro.

[bthomas]

If it changed, then that means one of them is wrong.

[DigitalSky]

they changed it on that page that i linked to. now i see on the inside page it says wadesborough is what it was originally called ans you said rdf21

[monsoon]

they changed it on that page that i linked to. ...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No doubt they read UrbanPlanet for the real deal.

[Rickydavisfan21]

you know it monsoon, hahahahaha

[monsoon]

Ok, looks like the Police and the Charlotte Observer have settled on using the word "melee" to describe the unfortunate events after the 4th of July fireworks in downtown. My guess is they are doing to avoid using the "R" word at any cost.

Now its amusing to me they must have never bothered to look up this word in the dictionary.

me

[SmellyCat]

I still think it was a ruckus. Or rhubarb, at worst.

[monsoon]

Actually Channel 9, which usually over dramatizes things, simply calls it a "civil distrubance". Thats probably the best description of what happened.

More in this article.

[monsoon]

Why doesn't Vince Coakley, the lead male anchor on WSOC's evening news, know the "H" in Horry County (Myrtle Beach) is silent? Adding the H really makes it sound like a bad place.

[teshadoh]

Why doesn't Vince Coakley, the lead male anchor on WSOC's evening news, know the "H" in Horry County (Myrtle Beach) is silent?  Adding the H really makes it sound like a bad place.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

HAHA!

That is rich, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it that way. But then my wife just admitted she might say it that way, so I guess you never know...

[monsoon]

It appears that Mark Boone on Channel 36 is also not aware that SC's most well known county is not pronounced "Whorey" county. Maybe channel 36 ought to make UrbanPlanet required reading for their reporters before they put them in front of the live cameras.

Investigative reporting, ha. One wonders why the "investigation" might not have asked why a SC county would be named to sound as if a bunch of whores were running the place. (that might actually be true, but that's a different issue )

[DigitalSky]

Haha. Well this is not a case of "not bothering to read the crap they write" but pronounce the crap they read.

[DigitalSky]

They really don't proofread their stuff at WCNC.com, do they?

http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/storie...s.2c2f165f.html

...This sets a standard," said Mark White and urban planner.

this should obviously say "an urban planner"

http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/storie...g.2d7acb5b.html

Officers said that around the same time they arrived to the scene in Mattherws a young man showed up at CMC in Pineville-Matthews with a gunshot wound in the back.

this one should say either "CMC in Pineville with..." or "CMC on Pineville-Matthews"

If you look around their website, you'll find many more examples.

[monsoon]

They have apparently outsourced their proofreader to India.

[krazeeboi]

^Nah, someone from India would know better. That's purely American.

[monsoon]

I see the Observer has an editorial cartoon in today's paper about Bush's war in Iraq titled = "War Without End". Sounds very much like this thread.

Coincidence? You be the judge.