That’s a good point about misspellings in news today (including on TV news); I didn’t connect it to spell check, but rather staffers who simply didn’t read for recreation (and thus were exposed to far fewer words than people years ago). In screening potential hires, employers should just ask them to write a paragraph (about anything). It was eye-opening for me to realize people who spoke poor English spell the same way; I had assumed it was just laziness. It seems some departments have a “scribe” - the employee who has the ability to write letters, emails, etc. properly.
You’d be shocked at how many people today don’t have a single book in their homes.
That's me! I'm the technical writer for my very large company and also the librarian. The thing is, I still can't spell for Shiite, and my grammer sux azz. It's just that every one else is worse.