I spend a few minutes a week watching right-wing “news” shows. One thing I notice is that NewsMax, in their lower third, is rife with typos. Three examples in the last 10 minutes:
Trump Wants Rebuild Gaza (should be Trump Wants To Rebuild Gaza)
Hanlde (misspelling of handle)
Gender Polcies (misspelling of “policies”)
At first, I wrote this off as a function of the fact that most of their viewers are functionally illiterate. But then I noticed that their advertisers make precisely zero mistakes; they don’t mind spending a few dollars on editors and proofreaders.
Sponsors may be selling snake-oil food supplements, or sham precious metal hedges against the coming “stock market crash precipitated by Biden,” or the need for “patriots” to buy high-priced off-grid power-generation equipment that is essentially solar panels and batteries, sold to everyone else at a small fraction of the price.
I honestly don’t know what’s going wrong here, but it’s pitiful.
Above is a solicitation to buy shares in Newsmax. I’ll pass.
