About a decade ago I was a regular article contributor to the local paper. They had a professional editor, who, incidentally, was also one of their political correctness editors. But one of the jobs she did was to make certain that whatever was printed in her section was grammatically correct and technically accurate. In one of the many layoffs she was let go and her place was taken by somebody who had never edited. In another layoff that person was replaced by two eighteen year old journalism students. At that point neither grammar or accuracy were being checked. The only function still in force was political correctness.
This is a longwinded way of saying that “journalism” as a profession has deteriorated to where medicine was in, oh, 1500.
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