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Message: [QUOTE="BigBird, post: 2785580, member: 4247"] I won’t disagree with you KB, but we should also consider how wages and work conditions have changed in the last 25 years. Today, the writer and the editor are quite often the same person. Any college freshman knows (or should) that writers can’t effectively proof their own work. Yet, many reporters and professional sportswriters have no choice. Often too, the writer not only has the work of two people in the writing process, but may also have to do the page layout and/or ad sales. The job isn’t what it used to be. Newspapers are downsizing and not keeping up with other professional wage rates. I think we get the quality we pay for. Your local newspaper writer or radio sportscaster makes less coin than the guy who picks up and recycles the newsprint after its read - if it is read at all. [/QUOTE]