Casualty of the Internet
Thanks to the Internet, blogs, etc. proofreaders, which provided my daughter a good living for years, have gone the way of the dinosaur. Too bad. It's obvious that errors distract the reader, detract from the message and diminish - in the eyes of the reader - the status of the writer. Witness what most of the comments, including this one, have centered on. Trouble is, most of the commenters (and me) are often worse writers making our statements even less credible. Bring those proofers back!