Here's the London Daily Mail (i.e., the LONDON DAILY FAIL) with their front page report.
Yes, very clever, "How We FAKED (not FUCKED) Up."
So what's your excuse for FAKING UP two lines in your one paragraph story:
"It has since emerged that there duplicates of each envelope..."
and "...which saw Emma Stone with for La La Land..."
Isn't it "there ARE duplicates for each envelope" and "Emma Stone WIN for La La Land?"
OHHHHH, the BLUNDERS! THE BLUNDERS!
The Daily Fail managed to load up with run-on sentences, and use a redundancy ("In a heart STOPPING moment....the producers of La La Land were STOPPED...")
It turns out that there are two sets of envelopes. To guard against the awkward problem of a star entering from the "wrong side" of the stage, there's a PriceWaterhouse employee on each side. To get this plum assignment, the employee has to be very smart and trustworthy.
The mistake, a first in 86 years, was that the meat-faced psychology major and businessman who lives in a 2 million dollar Malibu home made the error, stage right. Since his female partner (stage left) had handed the "Best Actress" envelope, HE still had his. He was busy Tweeting pictures and forgot to put away his "Best Actress" (La La Land) envelope and go on to "Best Picture." He instead handed the "Best Actress" envelope to Warren Beatty.
Beatty, perplexed, saw "EMMA STONE, LA LA LAND" as the winner. He paused several times, which seemed like he was deliberately creating suspense. Co-presenter Faye Dunaway chided him with an "Oh, Warren...." so he slyly handed the card to her so SHE could decide what to do.
She glanced at the card and trumpeted, "LA LA LAND!"
A moment later, she was heard to mutter, "It says Emma Stone."
(The Troll-filled Twitter-verse instantly accused her of being a "bitch" and a vicious "white woman" who tried to deny the black-cast "Moonlight" the prize).
After the La La bunch gave their acceptance speeches, the real winner was announced and another set of boring speeches given.
The Oscars is a once-a-year high pressure program.
Putting out a newspaper is a daily grind, which should routinely include PROOFREADING.
See if you can make sense out of another sentence from the LONDON DAILY FAIL:
Two more typos. Lovely. LOVELY.
These days, the shrug is, "Well, you know what we meant...fill in the missing word...who notices redundancy or bad writing...don't have a COW, Duuuuuuuuude."
Right. What the fuck. They should've just let the duuuuuuudes from "La La Land" walk off with their awards, right? What's it matter? They're all rich. Oscar-nominated is just as good as a win. It's yesterday news, so let's smile over TODAY's "FAKE-UP." Gee, ha ha ha, hope it's a WARDROBE MALFUNCTION....
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