One Typo: OK. But 10? Come on, <em>Daily Download</em>

We all spread ourselves too thin. If you work in daily online media you know the feeling of working late, being bleary-eyed and making brainless errors you kick yourself over later. Until you make more and land in a monster pit of despair. We've been there and we'll be there again. But today, Daily Download founder, CNN "Reliable Sources" regular and Daily Beast Contributor Lauren Ashburn goes to the well of mistakes 10 times in a story timestamped April 8 on cable's gender wars and the snarl between FNC's Bill O'Reilly and conservative radio host Laura Ingraham last week. One. Two. Even three errors? Fine, forgivable. A terrible given at times in a world where copy editors are scarce. But 10 looks like you took too much Ambien and wrote the story while driving to 7-Eleven after consuming a midnight snack you can't remember eating. Let's be honest. Ten looks like Denzel Washington in Flight in which he gets obliterated, wakes up to lines of coke, downs one or five screwdrivers and turns the plane upside down. Does someone need a few days at the beach? Also curious, at the bottom is a note explaining that the story first appeared in The Daily Beast, which, in fact, it did on April 5 under Ashburn's byline and this headline: Bill O’Reilly’s Macho Moment in On-Air Confrontation With Laura Ingraham Compare this to Daily Download's headline: Cable’s Gender Wars: Bill O’Reilly Vs. Laura Ingraham The explanatory note reads: "This piece brought to you through our content partnership with The Daily Beast, where it first appeared." As many know, Howard Kurtz, on the board of The Daily Download, also writes for Daily Beast-Newsweek and hosts CNN's "Reliable Sources." And Ashburn herself is a Daily Beast contributor, as stated above. But strangely enough, only a fraction of the errors turned up in The Daily Beast's story -- just one, the incorrect spelling of "smoothe." Which means something went incredibly awry when they transferred the story. Maybe try cut and pasting? We requested comment from Ashburn on the "content partnership" between The Daily Download and The Daily Beast and what exactly that means. We also mentioned the 10 errors in case she has a comment on those. See the parade of errors in the Daily Download story... Where are the beginning quotes? Missing beginning quotes, is this a UK version of "smoothe" and is 'Reilly a nickname? Smooth vs. Smooth and a missing "O" Quotes, another missing "O" and leaving the "w" off "omen"?

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One Typo: OK. But 10? Come on, Daily Download

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