The first time I saw the headline below was at a site in India. I figured it wasn't surprising they don't know a lot about the difference between Canada and the U.S.A. But now that same story and the same headline has turned up on American sites, and I suppose it proves that no one proofreads or checks anything anymore. 

The banner itself seems OK. Here's what it says:

Radio Announcers Fired for Body-shaming High School Basketball Players in Canada

OK, so what's the problem? Check out the very first sentence.

"Two radio broadcasters in Maine, Canada lost their jobs last week after they were heard body-shaming basketball players of a high school team."

Last time I checked, Maine was not in Canada and the radio station mentioned in the article boasts the call letters WHOU-FM, which in the city of Houlton, also in Maine, but still not in Canada. Its signal does reach into New Brunswick, but that's still no excuse for the glaring error. 

It tells me that people who post this stuff don't read a finished story composed elsewhere (or else it's automated and no one checks it at all). And this one has now appeared in many places on the web. Remember the Maine! And when you do, remember also that it's not in the Great White North.