• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    this is a great article, and somewhat unrelated, do all publications not have built-in grammar checks for their articles?

    “…crime they were later they later exonerated…”

    i keep seeing worse and worse typos, although it’s difficult to call them typos at this point, how does such a clusterfuck happen these days?

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      There used to be copy editors. Copy editors cost money. Now, there are no copy editors.

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      You’ve noticed the bane of my existence. The death of news and journalism has meant an end to good copy editing.