*taking the topic seriously....very seriously....some might say TOO seriously*

I am peeved, nay disgusted, at media...newspapers, TV, radio, movies...etc...who either cannot or WILL not hire people who can edit, spell & pronounce the language... (allowing for basic difference in different cultures.

I saw a made-for-TV movie the other day in which a simulated new program was giving instructions during a disaster. The simulated banner across the bottom of the screen proclaimed "Marshal Law!" Why, I expected a steely-eyed fellow with a six-gun to step into the scene and warn the bad guys!.........What I don't know is, whether they really couldn't spell "Martial", or whether they assumed their audience couldn't and might read it as "marital" law.

I am tired of presumably competent announcers saying someone or something had "wrecked havoc" on something. (I actually emailed a local radio commentator on this a couple of years ago, and he, at least, did express regret)

I am royally pissed at signs or announcements, sometimes BY schools, which cannot differentiate between "accept" and "except"

I am appalled that, after 4-5 years of daily exposure, the news media STILL cannot pronounce "Al Qaeda", "Saddam" or "Iraq" (it is NOT al-KAY-duh, and it is NOT "Eye-rack", no matter what Bush says.)

Those folks 'could' find a source like this and do some basic research, but that might involve giving a damn.