I’d also point out as a blogger, I don’t have the luxury of a having an editor like you. An excuse? Maybe. But are you telling me you have never sent a grammar error in a story to your editor? Did my spelling en masse incorrectly really change what I was trying to say?

No,our industry is not going to descend into the MTV abyss. Dave, I hope you don’t think just writing stories for your newspaper is going to be enough to preserve your job in the near future. I am only trying to help my coworkers survive the coming fifth round of layoffs in the last six years. At the Spokesman-Review, we’ve been cut to the bone. Being a web-centric organization, who do you think management is going to cut next? The person who understands and produces for the web or the “head-in-sand nitpicker.”

Some journalists – sorry, head-in-sand nitpickers – fear sloppy errors like that will descend en mass if we all try to become MTV.