Charles Apple | American Copy Editors Society

CNN Money needs a copy editor — or, at least, oversight from someone with news judgment more advanced than that of the average sixth-grader — to keep it from publishing a headline like this one.

Yes, that was published Saturday. And it was still available, as of Monday evening. Find it here.

CNN Money is an online collaboration between CNN, Money and Fortune magazines. None of those three seem like the kind of operations that might use a headline like this.

Thanks to Phillip Blanchard of Testy Copy Editors for posting this on Facebook.

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You know who else needs copy editors? Local TV news operations. Chicago’s WMAQ-TV in particular. And other local TV news operations. And Martha Stewart’s TV operation. And Baseball jersey manufacturers. And T-shirt designers. And Georgetown University. And Kansas State University. And the New York Jets, the Minnesota Vikings, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Nationals (boy, do they need a copy editor). And Fox Sports. And college athletic department ticket offices. And the Virginia general assembly. And college alumni magazines. And pharmacies. And the makers of Sudafed. And Borders bookstore. And government agencies and political candidates. And Tea Party candidates. And city and county Boards of Elections. And the U.S. Postal Service. And South African traffic cops. And road paving contractors. And billboard companies. And sign painters. And Home Depot and manufacturers of “hoodies.” And rubber stamp designers. And restaurants, breakfast joints, Chinese restaurants and cake decorators. And drive-in movie theater managers. And South Africa’s New Age and Sunday Independent newspapers. And Dublin’s Sunday Business Post. And newspapers in the U.K. And the Washington Post, the New York Times, the New York Post, Newsday, the Chicago Sun-Times (Hey! A repeat offender!), the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat & Chronicle, the Missoula, Mont., Missoulian, the Amarillo (Texas) Globe News, the Waynesboro News Virginian, the Virginian-Pilot, the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the Carbondale, Ill., Southern Illinoisian, and Time magazine. And CNN and Fox News and German news channel N24. And Google News’ ‘bots.