Haste, cost erode editing of online and mobile news
source: http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2011/06/13/haste-cost-erode-editing-of-online-and-mobile-news/
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The memory of, or, perhaps, even the desire to defend the reader may remain in today's newsrooms. But the ability of copy editors today to defend readers against error has inexorably been eroded. That decimation of editing capacity has been fueled by computerization beginning in the late '70s and continued in this past decade by the sacking of newsroom staffs and the insatiable demand of management to get stories online or winging to mobile devices - right now.
