Craigslist was a gut punch to local journalism, but now the business is withering from attrition. Proofreading might be a lost art. I frequently circle the typos, the missing and extra and misspelled words and so on that escaped correction, and tell myself I’ll write about this dereliction of standards—once I have a bunch of them.
•”. . . artists began realizing the power of neutral spaces, theaters that we’re literally built with particular shows in mind.”
These aren’t egregious blemishes, merely small spots on a silk shirt that you can overlook if you really want to. Papers of old didn’t want to. Jones’s report appeared on the street last Saturday. I looked for it online Wednesday. About half the needed fixes had been made, “do did” not being one of them. Still, the Tribune had been more attentive than I expected. v
