Crime & Federalism

In an earlier post I noted Valleywag's disgraceful reporting on Google and Yahoo!  I demonstrated an overt bias at Valleywag.  One thing I did not note was that Owen Thomas, Valleywag's editor-in-chief, has supposedly chastised Nicholas Carlson for two bumbling errors made in the past nine (yes, just nine) days. 

First:

Carlson's inclusion of Yahoo Japan, a separately traded company in which Yahoo owns a minority stake, was ridiculous. I've removed it from the poll.

Second:

Carlson has been duly flogged for missing the traffic-acquisition costs.

How many basic factual errors will Carlson be able to make before Owen Thomas does something about him?

Perhaps Valleywag should implement some basic quality control.  Nicholas Carlson should simply not be allowed to post about Yahoo! or Google until someone (other than Thomas, whom I noted has his own bias issues) actually fact-checks his posts.

I doubt that will actually happen.  But if Valleywag wants to be taken seriously, it needs to find some way to prevent such basic factual errors from occurring.