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What's Wrong with This Picture #8

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Fox News app front page from a few days ago. Front page. Dude.

What's Wrong With This Picture #5

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Forbes? Friggin FORBES?

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What's Wrong With This Picture?

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Capital I on Internet, please!

"Internet" is a proper noun. Capitalize it. I continue to see "blah blah blah on the internet and blah blah blah." And "Experts say the internet is almost as good as sliced bread." And "Someday the internet will be alive and will eat bananas and become constipated." Oh? Really? And your article you wrote for a nationally-syndicated well-known news organization is too busy to do a simple proofread to catch this amateur mistake? Oh. Okay. Well, I guess I have no choice but to stop reading your column and your publication. If you don't know to capitalize "Internet", what else don't you know? I understand that the trend is toward Internet becoming a common noun (ie not capitalized), especially outside of North America. But the AMA and Chicago Manual of Style both say it ought to be capitalized. One of my English Lit professors in college would give us a little talk each time he assigned a research paper. He said to m