>> Is it too much to ask for major publications to hire people who understand basic grammar?
Why yes it is, thanks for asking.
The job of a modern day propaganda journalist is to advance a leftist agenda through imagery and dishonest omission and distortion of facts. Knowledge and usage of correct grammar is NOT a job requirement, as long as you have the right “feelings” and ideology.
Yes.
>> Is it too much to ask for major publications to hire people who understand basic grammar? <<
Yeah, but maybe we should cut these young editors and writers a little slack. After all, “thanks from Hillary and I” was standard lingo from the POIUS under whom they grew up!