[W.]

Back when the world and I were young, finding a typo was an event celebrated on an about yearly basis. The one that I recall first was in a magazine called Vending, or some such, they left the 'L' out of 'public' in a caption and I found it sniggerworthy. Hey, it was 1966.

Proofreading is indeed dead, along with the journalistic arts formerly known as editing, spelling and having at least a smidgen of knowledge upon the subject one is writing about.

I also think it got worse with the computer age, but that's probably a whole different subject, good luck reading an hour without finding one in a major media piece.

[dware]

Proofreading is indeed dead, along with the journalistic arts formerly known as editing, spelling and having at least a smidgen of knowledge upon the subject one is writing about.

I'd say journalism, in general, is dead.

[publius911]

The one that I recall first was in a magazine called Vending, or some such, they left the 'L' out of 'public' in a caption and I found it sniggerworthy. Hey, it was 1966.

1966?

Must have still been using typewriters.

I worked for a nearby County for a public agency, which will remain nameless.

That particular typo popped up at least once a month.

And that was late 90s-early 2000s

The word processing age, no excuse. Seems to me you can exclude specific words from the word processing dictionary to avoid such embarrassment.