Some people should have their license to write revoked

Ken Jennings doesn't
even know what this story means -
AND HE WAS THERE!

Ummm, wow.

Okay, so I clicked the link to this news story because I heard about the Jeopardy competition between Ken Jennings, some other dude (like I care) and the super-computer.

Little did I know that clicking the link would send me into grammar fits. You think I’m kidding, don’t you?

Here you go – but don’t say you weren’t warned.
Watson, IBM supercomputer defeats champions in quiz

I can’t even begin to fathom what this author was trying to say in half of this article. FYI, if you want one that is a bit more comprehensible, try this: IBM's Watson: 1. Human Jeopardy Contestants: 0.
Do not even get me started on why there’s a period at the end of this headline though, but at least that's a minor violation as compared to the first link

If you read down at the bottom of the evil story, you see that this person is hardly a native English speaker. That’s okay, that doesn’t really bother me. But let's be fair, you shouldn’t be writing in English if you churn out incomprehensible stuff like that. Just write in your native language, mmmmkay?

Don’t even get me started on machine-translation either – which it very well could be, but that's a whole separate issue in and of itself.

There are countless blogs out there on any topic imaginable, probably twice as many on technical topics. In every language you can imagine. So, do NOT pay a freelancer to write crappy copy for you just to have some content in English. The information can be picked up in a variety of other sources, without making my head want to explode. And if you did, in fact, pay this freelancer to write this atrocity to the English language in English, then you need to get your money back – and start mandating writing samples from any future freelancers.

Furthermore, Google News, do not make something this hideous be the big, bolded link on the Sci/Tech news page. In fact, it doesn’t need to be any of the three links you have for each story. If that company is paying enough money to come up as a main hit on Google News, then they can afford a decent freelancer.

Now … that point aside, let me bring up the fact that, just because any idiot CAN be published these days doesn’t mean any idiot SHOULD be published. (Enter disclaimer: I am fully aware this blog contains little to no real value to anyone’s life, and it’s just me railing on random stupidity I see out and about in life, and on the internet. But at least I can write comprehensibly.)

I’ve learned, though, that all the good writers work for gossip sites – and regular news sites suffer the idiot writers – I think I need to send my resume to TheSmokingGun or TMZ.