The audio recording was accompanied by visuals including a picture of Obama wearing a yamaka. (emphasis ours)We suggest that, in the future, Reuters editors consider reading with their eyes rather than their ears. When reading with one's ears, yamaka could easily seem to be the appropriate word for this sentence. However, an editor's eyes would reveal (it is to be hoped) the difference between Yamaka, the sixth of seven texts in the collection of sacred Sanskrit writings known as the Pali Abhidhamma Pitaka, and yarmulke, the skullcap worn by Jewish males, mainly those of the Conservative and Orthodox variety, during prayer or religious study. As Jon Stewart has humorously observed, it's not a Jew beanie; we suppose that "holy Sanskrit text" also numbers among the things a yarmulke is, most decidedly, not.
For this auditory erratum, Reuters is awarded an Oops! Is My Lazy Showing?, a Phoning It In, and the following Drunken Proofreading rating:
*** (three stars) - I needed a shot just to look myself in the mirror this morning.
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