Proofreading, An Ancient Art

Okay, okay.  No more caps lock.  But there really, truly has to be some college grad with a chip-head degree that can publish this without looking like:

Seriously.  Why is there a job shortage in this country when so many of the things we consume (yes, this includes online information) is wrong, doesn't work, or breaks on the second try?  Shouldn't there be a market for quality control somewhere?  Oh wait.  Yes, there used to be.  It's too expensive to maintain, I guess.  (Hence the reason why I'm starting to love Etsy and other individual proprietors:  They still have the ability to plan, design, make and check their work by hand.  Love and care in every step!)

Anyway.  You need a lot of hands in the process when gleaning national news, I understand.  Things won't go right all the time.  But every. single. day?  They're going too fast for their own good and driving me nuts in the process.  I used to be in this business, and I would have gotten demoted if our weekly newspaper had these kinds of errors in it week in, week out.  It's hard to take back a printed edition, yes.  That's an understatement.  However... isn't it just easier to do it right the first time around?  No one will notice if you take the extra 10 seconds to check your HTML code and your dictionary.  

The English version of al-Jazeera does better than this, CNN.  Get with the frickin' program.  

Proofreading, A Lost Art

What I can't figure out is why SI.com can't find a couple of good proofreading peons out of college to tell them the following:  

1.  Irks = To irritate or annoy.  Urks = Steve Urkel. 

2.  The word "attempt" once in a sentence will suffice, thanks.  

The fact that I have to refer to proofreading as an art disturbs me even more.  For the love of God, you "professionals!"  IT'S CALLED PROOFREADING AND/OR SPELL CHECK.  I hate going all Kanye on it, but seriously... urks?!