Self appointed spelling Police?
Just snickering—most journos look down their nose at Tea Partiers, often calling them (among other things) ignorant. Yet this one doesn’t know the difference between waive and wave. And the difference really is significant—one might almost suspect a freudian slip.
Nope. I appointed her.
(Not really.)
But a misspelling can be downright serious. Many years ago (ca. 1983, back when most folks knew how to spell correctly), a prior employer published an ad about how their product would help you find a certain kind of illusive problem.
They meant "elusive," as in hard to find, instead of "illusive," it's not really there, but the spelling error completely inverted their pitch. Instead of "our equipment finds that hard-to-find problem," the ad really said "our equipment shows you problems that aren't really there."
Not what you want.
[They were touting a special super-high-speed electronic circuit I spent a LOT of time designing for them, much faster than competitor HP's and it used much less power and less circuit-board real-estate to boot. I left the company on good terms and so had no problem joking with my old boss about this spelling error.]
It’s one thing to snipe at a misspelling here amongst our own, but there’s no excuse whatsoever for it in a big daily. They hold themselves up as smarter than everybody else (why should I care who they endorse for a political office, for example), yet they make fourth-grade language errors of virtually every kind every day.