Above Average Jane notices sharp declines in quality at the Philadelphia Inquirer after 13 of 45 copy editors were laid off:

I wasn’t going to say anything but this is noticeable in the daily reading of the paper. It may seem odd for a blogger to point this out but blogging is not held to the same grammatical and spelling standards as the flagship newspaper of one of the nation’s largest cities. In the last week, for example, I saw oversees used for overseas, te for the, and today wee for what was surely intended as were. These things do pop but not in a good way.