[Finny]

I'm a person who has made a living by writing for a couple of decades. Those spelling errors and typos you found in Ziegler's piece make me cringe ... but I wonder, have any of you three made a living writing and NOT turned in pieces (plural) with similar ridiculously stupid and lame-brained goofs? ESPECIALLY when you were on a hard deadline and had to get the story out in a timely way?

You don't have to answer -- if you are professional writers, we ALL already know that the answer is NO, you have not. That's why publications have proofreaders and editors. I wrote a beautiful little feature once on cooking and every instance of the word "flour," wrote "flower." My editor was as perplexed as me ... it was just Freudian or something. He made fun of me for it -- he didn't write me off as a decent feature writer, journalist and reporter. NEITHER SHOULD YOU WRITE OFF JOHN ZIEGLER, especially if you're not familiar with his work.

Here's the deal: John Ziegler is one of the BEST, most THOROUGH, and HARD-HITTING good conservative radio guys (he had a great show on KFI for awhile) and journalists out there.

Maybe you guys could offer your services to him as proofreaders. But GOD HELP YOU when (not if, but when) one of those typos or goofs gets past you and into print.

Priorities, people.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I wonder, have any of you three made a living writing...

Yes.

[Drawsing]

You are right. I should not have mentioned the misspellings.

[UCANSEE2]

But GOD HELP YOU when (not if, but when) one of those typos or goofs gets past you and into print.

And what is the leading cause of typos in writing?

"But these days, being FIRST is more important than being RIGHT. "

---So, why are you lumping me in with others, when it is obvious that HASTE may have been the cause for the author?

Do you have some other explanation for why such an accomplished author, with money to pay a staff of proofreaders, would make these kind of mistakes?