Most internet articles are copied/typed by newly graduated 22 year "journalists".  So many spelling/grammar errors it's embarrassing.  I'm sure these "journalists" have tight deadlines and a long list of articles to type so they just crank 'em out.  This is what the news has come to.

Most internet articles are copied/typed by newly graduated 22 year "journalists".  So many spelling/grammar errors it's embarrassing.  I'm sure these "journalists" have tight deadlines and a long list of articles to type so they just crank 'em out.  This is what the news has come to.

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There seems to be a change taking place in what kind of errors are tolerated in spelling, grammar, punctuation and syntax.
Misuse of apostrophes has been popularized by such entities as Starbucks (how many bucks are they talking about? perhaps 4 coffee?) which is directly tied to the fact that in their original storefront, they had just 9 (nine) high square windows in which to write letters, and they chose to keep it modular by omitting the apostrophe. And their success can't be denied -- "Must Be Doing Something Right."
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Vons is another -- a major grocery chain that didn't want to be confused with Van's (a popular shoe store), even though Vons doesn't sell shoes and Van's doesn't have a bakery, a produce section or a meat department.
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But there is one big thing that seems to be surging the tide and that is the use of smart phones and texting. It is more keystrokes to put in the apostrophe, or to include the "y" and "o" before the "u" -- as well as certain other letters IYKWIM (if you know what I mean) lol.
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I have seen more than one pompous dweeb scoffing at the notion of paying attention to proper spelling (and dweebish pomposity seems to be appealing to some social media users) for the mere fact that he's using auto correct on his phone and couldn't be bothered fixing what gets inserted while he's typing. I get the impression that he might not be willing to admit that he doesn't know the difference anyway, so he wouldn't know how to correct what he keeps seeing again and again. Plus, it takes TIME to correct especially when it might entail turning OFF the auto and turning it back ON again. The fact that he keeps seeing erroneous correction is causing him to learn it IMHO.
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-TLDR-
The reason anyone would subject himself to auto-correct in the first place is out of a desire to text fast (a.k.a., to text more quickly). Therefore, fast texting has effectively become more important than texting language properly.
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In the end, if it's faster it must be better.