Job cuts have made things in newsrooms most difficult, with surviving scribblers mostly left to their own devices—or AI—to sort out goofs we’re all susceptible to. Since it’s hard for one to proofread one’s own work, we should all brace ourselves for harder times ahead.
Scribblers will, now and then, be exposed to ridicule, not because their mastery of English is bad, but because of constrained gate-keeping.
Which is why we’ve to be excused for repeating this perennial advice of ours: Before you hand over your work to the next person in the production chain, read, and read, and read it again.
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