• throwback3090@lemmy.nz
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      The majority of news orgs have had to merge editor jobs and no longer have dedicated copy editors.

      People who write for a living are no better, possibly worse, than the average person at the rules of writing.

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      hammered out very quickly without much proofreading.

      You already said the writer was American. This is just putting a hat on a hat.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        I’m not sure I agree with your point, but I really enjoyed that idiom.