Maybe don't lay off all the copy editors?

[Nevilledog]

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[hlthe2b]

1. More editors in general... That includes less formal MSM news sites and blogs.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Let alone the proofreaders!

Some article was linked here yesterday that referred to school dress codes excluding "mid-drift shirts", whatever the cornbread hell THOSE are!

[Tracer]

4. Ah, proofreaders.

I worked for newspapers for years and have seen my share of un-proofed copy. But the worst was a double-paged spread advertising men's suits on sale at a large mall store.

Only problem the 60 point type at the top of the page said "men's s**ts"

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. My late ex

once regaled me with the story of a local hardware store in his home town that took out a double page ad proclaiming "SELLING OUT TO THE BARE BALLS!"

[misanthrope]

3. But then how can they continue to funnel more money to management?

Some of the biggest problems newspapers face are from the for-profit model. It incentivizes not just sensationalism but exploitation of workers. Longtime beat reporters get axed for younger versions who can be paid less. Editors get shaved away. As it becomes a battle to maintain the desires of those atop the structure, the paper itself suffers.

[FakeNoose]

6. The execs would be more useful if they could proofread

I'll bet most of them can't even type.

[misanthrope]

8. They're too busy chumming it up with politicos and business leaders

"Citizen Kane" wasn't dreamed up from nothing, you know.

Flattery and access are tools for prying journalists away from their mission.

[KT2000]

7. It really is getting bad

Not just on the internet but so much of all kinds of text are either getting proofread or bad grammar is getting slack and acceptable.

[WarGamer]

9. Almost as bad as Fox News chyron writers.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Point taken, but this happens sometimes even when actual copy editors are laying out the pages.

[jmowreader]

11. So where was the plate operator and the pressman when this happened?

I catch a bunch of shit when I’m running plates. Like, for instance, on Saturday I was a-platin’ away when I saw an AP story about the military that said something about “2500 solders” doing something. To the phone I went: “Look Joel, we’ve got a line in the fourth paragraph that says ‘2500 solders.’ I’m going to put a D in that word.” Copy desk was very happy.