It always makes me wonder about someone double checking their work. If a story is, produced and published and multiple spelling/grammar errors are present, it makes me think nobody double checked their work. Ok, rant over.
Actually, I think that's a legitimate gripe. One of the things the "gun community" suffers from is perception. And, the pureyors of that perception ought to be held to some standard.
After all, we in the Second Amendment community are forced into a super legality that we might exercise our right. SO, why shouldn't the First Amendment community also meet some standards?
I know some folk in the print journalism business, and the topic of proofreader, editors, and author content is a sore one. Copy Editors--the people tasked with ensuring that author's stories are in coherent grammar and diction have, apparently, become as rare as matchlock rifles. Hiring writers with demonstrable skills runs into more than a few roadblocks in our current culture, too.
Now, in some fairness, most of the editors I know are working in periodicals, where there is still some money and relevance. Nealy all of them are near retirement age, and they are generally pessimistic about the future of print at all; and are particularly gloomy about daily publications.
Yet, daily publications still "drive" news cycles. And those news cycles often change "our" political landscape. I have no ready answers. My old hometown's newspaper used to have a authoriod who was
convinced of many things. That the month was spelt "Maiy"; that the group pronoun of possession was "thier"; and that pulras were always rendered with apostrophes. Among other foibles. Allegedly, when approached about these "idiosyncrasies" said worthy would melt down into a screaming tantrum of rage alleging every possible (and some impossible) form of discrimination or such similar social evil. This lasted until that worth found employment as asmall Houston tv station as a news reader. The spellcheck at the paper still coughs up "corrections" to the twisted spellings, though.
It's an uphill battle, and one that matters for our "side." Control perception and you control reality. Sadly.
