Nine persons are dead — including one of natural cases
Then later in the article:
Lawmen later went to another residence, where they found an elderly woman who apparently had died of natural cases.
So it wasn't just a case of spellcheck not catching a misspelling, because cases is spelled correctly. Though as I'm sure everyone here knows that is the wrong word to be used. The cause (clue to reporter, it's natural causes) is laid clearly at the feet of our education system. An education system where educators keep demanding more pay and less oversight of the job the perform. Far too many educators are not worth a third of what they are paid. I realize this is off topic, however, it annoys me to see such incompetence within our press.
I share your disgust with the spelling on TV, etc. The ‘ticker’ which runs below the news on all stations is a particular irritant to me.
I chronically call the 3 local affiliate stations in Reno to tell them they have spelling errors or even worse. Last week, the noun was missing from their short blurb. They also seem to think that they need to use as few characters as possible in saying what they want to say.
I often wonder just how much $$$is being paid to those who create the ticker. When I do call, I don’t get much of a response.
These are more of the people who won’t & do not need to survive the coming war here 9in the USA. They are useless.
ABC is the worst.
What passes for journalism from so called reputable papers these days, would not have been accepted by our business teacher for the weekly high school newspaper.
The lady had high standards. In the typing class, if she could tell you had made a correction, it was counted as an error. The document had to be perfect to get and A.
One error was a B, two a C, 3 a D, and after that, you might as well start over. Any incorrect punctuation also counted as an error.
Typing is an auto-pilot activity for a lot of people. If you’re more used to typing -ases rather than -auses, then -ases will come right out of your brain. I continually spell rabbit “rabbie” every time, no matter what, and I’ve been a typist for 40 years. Why it happens, who the heck knows. But news organizations should have more proofreaders instead of relying on spell check. The Breitbart site, I’m afraid, is one of the worst offenders. Every article has typos and grammatical errors.