I can't take it anymore. I really can't.
I've finally given up on mentally circling with big angry red pen the innumerable amount of grammar, spelling and typographical errors that appear in CNN's online news articles. I've even nearly trained that sick, sick part of the human brain that insists on staring at fresh traffic accidents to NOT STARE INTO THE COMMENTS SECTION, FOR THE LOVE OF SANITY, AVERT YOUR EYES!!!! and not get sucked into the racist, bigoted asinine cesspool that is CNN readers around the globe.
But this is the last straw. This is just the writer having a piss-take on the readers. Oh please oh please God, let it be a piss-take.
With regards to the article's title "Final launch of space shuttle Endeavour delayed", the extent of the coverage on that story was one singular line: "The scheduled launch of the space shuttle Endeavour has been delayed for at least 48 hours, NASA said Friday."
Seriously. That was it.
The rest of the article discussed at length completely irrelevant information and supremely poorly edited direct quotes.
Perhaps most notable was a truly cringingly insensitive juxtaposition of an inappropriately offhand "A few months ago, before his wife was shot," (like you know, whatevs) and the now rather out-of-place quote from Kelly having said months before the shooting:
'Flying in space is a very difficult thing to give up… [as is brain and body function from being shot point-blank in the head]….And, you know, you go a couple of months out and you're like, 'Oh, I really hope this is not the end of my flying career."
Really CNN, really? His wife having been shot in the head since he said that is not some offhand throwaway detail. Not to him and not to anyone else. It is SO inappropriate to include that quote after the lame segue "a few months ago, before his wife was shot, he said this". Is anyone editing this shit?
But all this only came to my attention after I picked my jaw off the floor at having initially seen this next writing fumble. It pretty much jumped off my screen and grabbed me by the throat even at a glance so how not one but TWO contributing writers and however many editors (hopefully none - though you tell me if that makes it better or worse) completely missed it, I'll never know. But the worst of all of this meandering, bumbling mess of an article - linked from a front-page headline, mind - was this horrible, idiotic syntax error that any third grader would have been rightly ripped apart for and made to cry:
"Back on the ground, Cmdr. Mark Kelly's wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was planning to watch the shuttle's ascent. Three months ago, Giffords was clinging to life after a gunshot wound tore through her brain in January's Tucson, Arizona, mass shooting."
Dear CNN, you FRIGGIN MORONS, a gunshot wound does not tear through a brain. A bullet does that. A wound is a result, not a cause…fascinating as that imagery is.
Thank God this article was just meant as a joke, right?
…Right?