Analysanalyzeded

Why is everyone so lazy today? Why can't anyone take the time to edit or even effectively proofread anything? The internet seems to be the breeding ground for the new wave of modern day illiteracy, with the oversimplification of even the simplest words (e.g. "your" into "ur," "are you" into "ru," etc), overcomplication of simple words into gibberish trash (e.g. 1337 5p33k), and the demise of any kind of punctuation. It's a complete breakdown of language into the grunts they started from.
But, that is just your average internet chatter, forum poster, email sender, or small time blogger, right? Reputable sources are safe from this "stupidifying" (an ironically stupid term I coined in 2001 to describe and mock the phenomena), right? Newspapers and news sites still have editors who scour the material and fix simple errors, right? The answer is no. Yes, people... it is spreading.
One can no longer flip through our semi-local newspaper, The Evansville Courier out of Evansville, IN, without catching obvious errors everywhere that should never have made it to print. It is full of doubled words ("The the bear was mad."), wrong words for context ("The bare was mad."), misspelled words ("Teh bear was mad"), or missing words that make the sentence ambiguous ("The was mad."). It seems most people are satisfied by a quick spell check, and then they are ready to go to print.
Of course, in some cases, it seems that a spell check wasn't even thought of. I was reading an article from Reuters about the honey bee genome on Yahoo News and it contained the sentence:

"The scientists who analysanalyzeded the genetic code have discovered the honey bee originated in Africa and spread to Europe in two ancient migrations."

"Analysanalyzeded?" How did they miss this? Later in the article, they write

"The insects also have fewer genes than the fruitfully or mosquito for immunity."

Writing "fruitfully" in the place of "fruit fly" would imply that a spell checker corrected it automatically, but how did it miss "analysanalyzeded?"
Of course, I'm just giving examples. This is by no means an isolated incident, and these news outlets are not the only offenders. Editors need to actually take some initiative and do their job. If the trend continues, eventually, you'll see English textbooks with these kind of mistakes. Imagine how those kids are going to write.
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