please?

I imagine this is set to get worse in a world where people seem to deem it more important to write something quickly rather than intelligently. One saving grace is that online articles can be corrected instead of a retraction or correction appearing in a paper or magazine some weeks later. A few weeks back there was an article on the Guardian site about broadband that contained awful inconsistencies even within the article so it was clear to anyone that could multiply by 1000 that some of the data was incorrect (the problem in this case was that it wasn't possible to work out which bit was right and which byte (sic) was wrong). In this case, it was not only corrected later in the day but there was a note to say so. The main problem, for me, is that it was written with an air of authority but anyone that understood the subject even slightly could not have made such basic errors so people are clearly being asked/told to write specialist articles that are outside their sphere of understanding. If this is so then there are bound to be mistakes.