If I could kick Yahoo!'s front page in the nuts, I would

[KamaAina]

Right between overdraft fees and the pig in MN that has swine flu (do pigs call it "person flu"?), I have to look at this:

Analysis: Is life tougher for biracial children?

:grr: :banghead: argh: :nuke:

I thought Yahoo! was just up the road in Sunnyvale. Apparently they've packed up and moved to Hammond, La. :eyes:

[silverweb]

1. No, they moved to India.

I dumped Yahoo when they fired over 1000 American workers and moved their operations overseas.

[WeekendWarrior]

2. Have you read the article?

I'm not sure why you're getting upset.

[anigbrowl]

3. why is this a problem?

I think it's a perfectly legitimate question to ask as it relates to current events, since many readers may have no experience of the issue and want information about it. I don't, since my partner and I are different ethnicities, but it doesn't bother me that the question is examined.

Incidentally, their answer appears to be 'no, probably not'. http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091016/ts_csm/amixedrace

[KamaAina]

4. Posing the question that way makes it sound like the caveman judge might actually have a point

as is often the case with print media, the actual story skews completely differently from the headline.

[anigbrowl]

8. Not to me, it doesn't

If it said 'life can be tougher for biracial children' I'd agree there was some bias going on (although it's true as far as it goes - in some situations, it can make life more difficult for some people) but simply asking the question is neutral. I don't buy into the idea that the question shouldn't even be asked.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. It's galling to me

because of the title. If the story concludes that having parents with different racial heritages does the children no harm, then why don't they just say so in the title? Too often, the media post stories with open-ended titles suggesting that the answer is still undetermined. People are so lazy today, they see an open-ended interrogatory title and assume there must still be controversy around something they thought was already settled.

It's just conjecture on my part, but I believe the OP may be upset due to this story coming on the heels of the racist judge in Louisiana who refused to marry the black man / white woman out of concern for any children born of that union. Perhaps the timing of the story was just a coincidence, but I'm also suspicious when a story like that gets published. It looks to me like a 'hail Mary' pass to provide cover for a racist bastid, and the ambiguous title clinches the deal AFAIC.

[KamaAina]

9. Thank you!

Perhaps the timing of the story was just a coincidence

And if you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to show you...

[anigbrowl]

10. Obviously the story is related to the LA judge being in the news

but all it does is examine his claim (and largely dismiss it, but as a matter of opinion rather than definite fact). I don't see asking a question as cover, and saying that 'people are lazy...assume there is controversy' suggests other people are too stupid to see it in context.

It's still statistically unusual enough that many people have no personal context, that is to say they may not know any interracial couples socially and be unable to judge the truth or falsity of the judge's argument from their own experience: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States

[Cirque du So-What]

12. When I said 'people are lazy'

I meant too lazy to even click on the link. Even though the article goes on to say the kids will be alright, some people will just take a cursory glance at the title (in the form of a toss-up question) and go on their way...but the seed of doubt has been planted, and for the bastids who control what passes for news, that's considered a win.

[onehandle]

5. Yahoo's news is just a news feed. Much of it is automated.

It's not their content and anyway, I don't see a problem with the article.

Worse things to be outraged over out there.

[arcadian]

7. Yahoo! sucks ass

Carol Bartz is driving that company to it's grave.

[NYC_SKP]

11. First, don't make Yahoo your homepage...

I have Google as my homepage, it loads faster and doesn't give me any bullshit.

I think, too, that Yahoo loads different stories for different users depending upon your search history.

I use Yahoo mail, so go there just often enough to notice these things, their form of customizing to each user.

I think it only applies if you're logged in for Yahoo mail.

Anyway, don't give them hits.

[Occam Bandage]

13. You know how you can kick them in the nuts?

Set your homepage to something else.

[HipChick]

14. Bi-racial seems to be only a problem in the US...

it's very common in UK...no-one even bats an eyelid..

[TexasObserver]

15. Do you ever get the urge to kick the Huffington Post in the vagina?